Logged Visits:

5th May 2024  09:54  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

13th Nov 2022  15:05  by Thomas David Whitaker

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Did a lap of the pillar, a couple of yards radius of the cairn. No more sign of the bolt than johnlew's dig 3 years ago.

10th Sep 2019  14:50  by jonglew

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

OS record this as a buried item, so previous loggers 'Possibly Missing' when none have dug for it is a little unfair - have changed the state back to 'Unknown'. From the given GRs for the Cairn and Bolt, it is off-set 0.97m E and 1.74m N from the cairn. At that point I concentrated my search, probing the ground and digging. Ultimately nothing found. But there is a problem in that the OS record the cairn as destroyed, so has the current cairn been built in exactly the same spot, and if it is, should the off-sets be taken from centre of the cairn or the N & E edges? To cap it all despite having a spade and prodder, I forgot to bring a measure - doh!

Search area wrt cairn TP8082©jonglew
1st of 2 digs - flat stones found, no bedrock. TP8082©jonglew

21st Jul 2019  12:36  by Ant1974

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 5/10

21st Dec 2017  13:47  by Earby Rambler

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 0/10

Visited same time as cairn.

6th Sep 2017  10:34  by Heidi

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 9/10

10th Apr 2015  17:00  by Morecambe Monkey

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 5/10

6th Oct 2013  14:30  by Bri

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 1/10

28th Apr 2013  16:05  by redDragon

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 2/10

Visited Drumaldrace summit but couldnt find the bolt, if there is one, I didnt even look for it, not a day to hang about

10th Mar 2012  11:50  by ted

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The bolt is described in the OS trig marks database as 'bolt in rock; mark buried' with the coordinates placing it about 2 metres from the original cairn. The database records both cairn and bolt as computed in 1955; i.e the bolt did not replace the cairn. No rock outcrops at the summit but using a long-bladed screwdriver as a probe, there seems to be a solid platform a few inches below the surface - maybe the foundations of the cairn. Trial digs with a trowel on the Addlebrough side found nothing but a spade would be needed to do a thorough search; perhaps a metal detector as well. So possibly 'possibly missing' - not really sure.

5th Mar 2012  20:13  by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 1/10

Noticed this had popped up recently in the lists so as I was doing Drumaldrace cairn it was a good chance to have a search for this bolt.Had a look all round the cairn and nearby.Also lifted stones from around base and from top of cairn but saw nothing however there was a lot of snow and ice about so recorded as possibly missing

15th Feb 2012  14:06  by painterman61

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 5/10

Done same time as cairn

20th Jun 2010  00:00  by rupertal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 0/10

6th Jul 2003  14:40  by amblerbob

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Pennine Way from Hawes to Dodd, then returning over Drumaldrace. My non-digital photographs show the cairn being extant, but no sign of a bolt. Moderate views.

22nd Sep 2002  13:35  by dugswell2

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Nothing obvious so probably buried.

23rd Feb 2001  15:52  by Phil Clayton

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 7/10

Third visit to this fell top, others in '78 and '94. Was unaware of existence of bolt on summit of this easy Yorkshire 2000er but might as well claim it anyway!

10th Jul 1994  20:33  by MikeG

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Out with DO, MT doing Walk 12.5 of John & Anne Nuttall's guide The Mountains of England and Wales Volume 2 - England. We came here after a rainy day up in Coniston - weather not much better dull, overcast and misty. Did both Drumaldrace and Dodd Fell Hill from Cam road . Didn't know about any other trig point types other than pillars back then so didn't look for the bolt