2016

NY9023 : Shooting butt no. 5, Scarset Rigg

taken 8 years ago, 3 km from Thringarth, County Durham, England

Shooting butt no. 5, Scarset Rigg
Shooting butt no. 5, Scarset Rigg
Being the 14th August, the moor was noticeably deficient in grouse, but extremely well supplied with spent cartridges, dog poo, and cigarette ends. Ah, the country life, noble stewards of our wilder bits of land take such great care of the place. Oh, tyre tracks, too, forgot to mention them. This is just one of a line of neatly built gun emplacements for the artillery to operate in some level of comfort - no crawling along in the wet peat like the stalkers do in Scotland. No mammals to hunt here - the gamekeepers make sure to trap anything resembling a four-legged predator (although I've seen more dead grouse in such traps than anything else).

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Geographical Context: Uplands Sport, Leisure Moorland Category: Shooting Butt Category: Shooting butt
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Scarset Rigg [3] · Grouse [2] ·
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Photographer
Andy Waddington   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 14 August, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 7 June, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 9072 2391 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:36.6159N 2:8.7116W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 9073 2390
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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