By: Blonde Two
Whilst we were on our jean-clad Blunder (Wander) on Saturday, we Blondes discovered some very strange black boxes in the hedgerow. Being Blonde, we were quite interested in what the boxes were for (ideas included vermin, nesting, Jelly Baby storage etc); but we were much more interested in working out the numbering system.
Here is number twenty seven …
… which was not next to either twenty eight or twenty six. We decided then that strange box numbers must work a bit like house numbers and be even on one side and odd on the other; so we crossed the lane to find out. This theory was not correct as the box opposite was number three; here it is.
If anyone can help us out with our investigation into, a) What the boxes are for, and b) How the numbers work; we really would be most grateful.
Mmmm I would be interested too. I often walk the dog around Occombe Woods in Paignton and high up in the woods they have these boxes too. I can’t work out the numbering system or figure out what they are for either!
Well they aren’t bat or bird boxes. I wonder if they are squirrel traps that are inactive at present – they mount spring traps inside boxes in my local wood, but the boxes are a good bit stronger than the ones in your piccie. Intriguing. I don’t like the traps in our wood because they could as easily kill a bird as a grey squirrel.
The answer has presented itself to us. Apparently they are dormouse boxes used for counting (the people do the counting not the doormice). Nobody seems to know what the numbers are for.