Sunday, May 28, 2006

Miscellaneous structures from the Bolton Conservation Land

I went back this weekend to the same hills on the Stow-Bolton line that I visited last week with Friend From Carlisle (FFC). There were some nice sites which I'll report in due course. There were also a number of structures at the edges of or between these sites, and they might be worth at least recording.

Here for example is a rock-on-rock, part of a loosely defined curve of rocks. Right next to it, or just above it on the slope, here is a small pile with a clear symmetry. I wish to call piles with symmetries "effigies".
Here is another small structure from the same spot.
These pictures from today are from one of the shoulders off the side of the hill. Here are some other miscellaneous things from yesterday but found in the same general area.

This rock face of quartz seems to have gone through chemical and heat treatment. Looks like there were fires built against the face of the rock.Also note the two small rocks wedged against the foot of the boulder.

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