So Many Boulders
Introduction
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So Many Boulders
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 7 Mar 2022
While the grassy fields around here are unremarkable, it is worth taking a walk around them just to take in the boulders. The line at the edge of this field is probably the most substantial, but it is not an isolated case - there are lines and piles of stones and boulders at the edges of all the fields round here, and the sheer amount, and size of some of them, is pretty impressive. Old OS maps show fields being here as far back as the 1850s, but judging by the size of some of the stones I reckon a lot of them have only recently been excavated.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.85961
Longitude
-3.730386