Unknown installation, can anyone identify?

28 Dec 2010 18:47 #1 by Denis
Jim C and myself spent a damp afternoon at Hunsdon again today. With the undergrowth really laid bare due to the cold temperature, we found something unusual. A square pad of concrete about eight inches thick measuring about 11'X 11'
Mounted within this are four heavy steel brackets, set at a distance of 8 foot apart, one in each corner. Does anyone know what this could have been??

In the forty years I have been walking this place, it never fails to surprise me!

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28 Dec 2010 18:56 #2 by Able Mabel
Replied by Able Mabel on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
Possibly the four brackets were the bottom section of legs that supported some high level tank ????

How remote is it ?
Is it on a dispersed site or technical??

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28 Dec 2010 20:54 #3 by Denis
Replied by Denis on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
It is behind a long gone dispersal, a few feet from what was a 'Technical block type A', converted to a RDF repair workshop. All this is not that far from the tech site. Nothing on the plans (no surprise there!)

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28 Dec 2010 21:19 #4 by ianbache
Replied by ianbache on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
Is to far away for a windsock mount???

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28 Dec 2010 22:04 #5 by Denis
Replied by Denis on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
It would have been one hell of a windsock for an eleven foot square concrete base, and four great big mounts like that Ian!

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28 Dec 2010 22:08 #6 by Linton Lad
Replied by Linton Lad on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
could it have been a lighting gantry or water tower base

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28 Dec 2010 22:39 #7 by ianbache
Replied by ianbache on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?

It would have been one hell of a windsock for an eleven foot square concrete base, and four great big mounts like that Ian!


Hi Denis your right i didnt quite get the dimensions quite right, the windsock would have been as big as a barrage balloon

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28 Dec 2010 22:45 #8 by mawganmad
Replied by mawganmad on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
I'm leaning toward raised Braithwaite tank for dispersed site.

James Thomas

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28 Dec 2010 22:56 #9 by Denis
Replied by Denis on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
Flashearth link + marks the spot.
www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.810145&lon=0....&z=17.8&r=0&src="msl"
All the dispersed sites are a mile to the west of the airfield MM, this is just off the northern edge of the airfield, and to the left of the remains of the north south runway.

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28 Dec 2010 23:32 #10 by mawganmad
Replied by mawganmad on topic Unknown installation, can anyone identify?
Crumbs, there's not alot left of that airfield, no wonder you have spent forty years walking around it!
Sorry from an earlier post I thought it was intimated that it was found near a dispersed site, still thinking water tower, or is not possible?

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