Weird iron

I decided on a moorland walk today, and one I hadn't done before. I walked up the Jubidee road in Evie (or it may be in Rendall). There was a nice collection of ruinous tractors at Gallowhall which I photographed. Only problem was trying to avoid the phone-lines they were under.
At a ruin further up the hill I noticed this weird implement. No idea what it was for. It had the remains of a wooden shaft and there was an iron thing in the wall into which it might have fitted once.

I carried on up to North Kews and the little loch called Looma Shun. Not many birds about...some goldeneye ducks and greylag geese, a few red grouse. I got up to the top of Muckle Billia Fiold with views over Starling Hill and Starra Fiold, and out to sea. A sharp snow shower came in from the north, so I wasn't sorry to head down to the sea at Woodwick and walked along to Tingwall for the bus, photographing the Knowe of Midgarth on the way.

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