Sunday 31 March 2019

Triangulation surface block on Grisedale Pike

I'd seen one of these before on Robinson but hadn't known what it was, but after some reseraching about trig points, I found that this is called a SURFACE BLOCK. http://trigpointing.uk/info/types.php and http://trigpointing.uk/trig/7422 I followed the link on the second site to find out what a "third order" site means. It seems that they used the triangulation pillars to do the main survey, found some gaps and set up a second order set to fill the gaps. And then...