In May 1941 a farmer from Gillmill near Stewarton in East Ayrshire reported that a German Luftwaffe plane had dropped a bomb on the Andersons Mount that had not exploded. An army bomb disposal team dug out and defused the bomb and the spoil and crater were left. This area is always very wet and the farmer laid a pipe from the water filled crater to the nearby Bogflat Farm where it flowed into a well.
It's very rare to find unfilled bomb craters and this one has been called the 'Witches Pool' by some locals who tell youngsters tales of the supernatural in this remote part of the old Lainshaw Woods.
An expert has suggested that the bomb was exploded in situ rather than defused. Safe surroundings and the shape is typical of a bomb explosion.
21 янв 2021
