Geograph - photograph every grid square

The main cluster of concrete blocks of a Starfish Decoy is not far from here. Closer, only about 40 metres to the WSW of the spot from which the present picture was taken, is another prominent feature, a NS4278 : Water-filled bomb crater.

Just 20 metres to the SSE of that crater are two concrete blocks, well away from the main group: NS4278 : Concrete block of Starfish Decoy. Near there, and shown in the foreground of the present picture, are the very faint traces of a square structure. It is possible to discern, in some sets of satellite imagery, that there were eight such structures, each nine metres across, laid out here in a regular pattern; see Link for a description.

They are hard to pick out in satellite imagery(*), and even harder to see on the ground, but I have attempted to show one photographically here. A few metres ahead, near the left-hand edge of the picture, is a sort of narrow clear lane, receding from view, and bounded by two parallel lines of tufts of rushes: that is the south-eastern edge of the structure. Slightly further away, directly ahead, the straight line of the south-western edge of the same structure can be seen.

The interior of the structure is therefore a few metres ahead, from the centre to the right. For a view from a different angle, see NS4278 : Traces of a square structure; the structure is no easier to see from there.

[(*) To anyone examining the site in Google Earth, I recommend using the "Historical Imagery" function to examine satellite images taken on different dates; I am better than most at picking out details, but the square structures and their arrangement should be apparent to most people in at least *some* sets of satellite imagery.]

In the present picture, the River Clyde is in the background, and Carman Hill is on the right.