Flares

The submarine pen at Ashley Cross, and the area around it, has been subject to controlled heather and gorse burning; this has cleared the mound, giving a better view of it as well as exposing the ground surface.  Amongst the resulting ashes several World war 2 artifacts could be identified; fragments of ordinance, some substantial and  the bakerlite cap of a trip flare.  The cap reads 'Flare trip wire MK1, 9/43, code mark N149', interestingly this type of trip flare, used by the British up until the late 1970's early 1980's, is still manufactured in India, if it ain't broke, I suppose.