Convict Pit

I mentioned recently that I would return to blip the Blackheath Convict Pits.
So off I set, a bit earlier today, and here is one of them.

Legend has it that these pits were dug to "house" overnight the convicts working on the construction of the road across the Blue Mountains 200 years ago in 1814. The holes are roughly 3 metres square and up to 6 metres deep and it is said that the most recalcitrant convicts were lowered into the pits by ropes for the night so they could not escape. Many convicts died and some believe their ghosts still haunt the bush.

Of course there are also the killjoys who say there is no hard evidence this was the case and they may have been built to store supplies for railway workers and water for locomotives during construction of the rail line alongside the road in 1867-1868.

I think my treatment with the help of Nik (Polaroid Transfer and Midnight) filters and LARGE view will convince you to believe the former theory.