Sea mark

View of the sea mark, as noticed in the previous post. Click to enlarge to see the mark on the horizon left. Solent right. Mystery stubble occupying the foreground.

A few days later I found that the sea mark was not visible from Bembridge Down, so perhaps the mark was intended for the use of shipping entering the Solent (from the east).

Not visible in the this snap is the unusual shape of the sea mark, eschewing both symmetry and right angles. We continue to wonder whether the builder had had some run in the with the Masons and was having a pop at them, with the early eighteenth century date being about right for such a stunt.

Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=triangular+tapering.

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