Battery Box Discombobulated Td5 owner

I recently replaced my ailing battery and, for the first time, i had to take out the dead battery. Cleaning the battery compartment, i discovered a small (about 2" x 2") plastic box containing one almost intact fuse and a second decomposed pile of blue powder, which i suspect used to be a second fuse or just copper wire. . There are, or were, a blue wire and a brown wire going into the small plastic box. Can anyone tell me what they might be? This is an ex Irish Electricity Supply Board vehicle and it's possible that it could be, or was an additional fuse put in place by the ESB.

Any help would be most welcome

Could be anything, probably worth chasing the wires and see where they go. Oh......... and also sort the rust out in your battery box before it ends up being a pile of red dust (and could also fail an MOT)

May have been supplying an inverter. Have you traced the wires or have they been cut off.

Kwakerman said:

Could be anything, probably worth chasing the wires and see where they go. Oh......... and also sort the rust out in your battery box before it ends up being a pile of red dust (and could also fail an MOT)

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Thankyou for this advice. However I have treated the rust and hopefully the battery will remain where LR intended

mick the builder said:

May have been supplying an inverter. Have you traced the wires or have they been cut off.

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No I have not had time to trace them. However, they look as if they have "rotted" through . When time permits I will try to trace as you suggest

How long have you had the landy?