Is this Glasgow University’s underworld portal?

Being on a fairly steep hillside means I can’t claim to have tripped over this one, but it was still a surprise, since I’ve wandered along the paths above and below many times, yet never noticed it.

This time I was walking along the grassy hillside looking for something else, when this pair of hatch covers/doors caught my attention.

I’ve no idea what they’re for but, despite their fairly substantial constriction, they can’t be for anything particularly sensitive. Despite having two sets of staples, the large pair of doors only has one padlock fitted, and it’s so tiny it barely even shows up in the pic (it’s the blob above the handles).

There’s nothing around, or any markings, to give a clue as to what’s behind those hatches, and I couldn’t hear anything. It’s often possible to hear sounds of water if such things belong to some sort of water company hardware, but unless it was in the past, and is now derelict and dead, that’s not the answer.

Seems odd to have a little hatch so close to a larger opening clearly intended for people to get through.

I didn’t find any on historic map records for the area of Gilmore Hill, and had the same result after digging up out of copyright OS maps of the hillside, which is depicted as just that – a plain hillside. The same is true of the current online OS offering.