Peat Stack
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Peat Stack by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Peat Stack
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 2 Jun 2009
This peat stack is a work of art as well as a thoroughly practical way of storing peats. Each peat is stacked at an angle so that rainwater will simply run off through the stack instead of soaking into the peats and undoing all the work involved in drying them in the first place.
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Image Location
Latitude
58.487919
Longitude
-6.244118