If you're wondering what I'm on about, I didn't know what they were either.
They are, it seems, the – usually – concrete pillars built by Ordnance Survey in 1936 to safely house their theodolites which are used for measuring the lie of the land.
If all that sounds a bit boring just look at some of the amazing photos of them bearing in mind most are situated very high up indeed.
I do rather like the Minion but my favourite is the one at Ben Ledi, Perthshire, with its stream of rime ice. Breathtakingly beautiful. But brrrr!
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken
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Re the one on Ben Ledi - many years ago we took our boys to Callander for a week`s holiday. Ben Ledi being its `local` mountain, you could get Ben Ledi anythings in all the tourist shops. Simon, puzzled by the popularity of Ben Ledi, said, " Who was he anyway, and what did he do ?"
I think on a good day, the one on top of the Bealach nam Ba, the pass from Kishorn to Aplecross has to be a favourite of mine.
Barbara
I have kept my copy and still occasionally dive into it. The sad thing is that gps mapping is superceeding the old method and trig points are seen as superfluous which I think is a crying shame as they were remarkably accurate and should be treasured.