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moss M
moss Jul 9, 2017 10:26:30
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
Thought you may like to see a video of the stones just a mile away from where I live. Being a 'monitor' for Historic England's HAR officer in my area I shot the film for her as there is talk about infilling the 'ponds'.
Personally, purely from a 'looks nice as it is' angle, I like it like this, but of course it can't be ignored having already been re-erected in the 30's I believe.

It is the most beautiful and quiet spot which in early evening is visited by hordes of ponies coming down to drink from the natural waterholes just to the south of the circle and is a wonderful sight. Of course many also ignore them and head straight for the circles ponds instead, which of course just
exacerbates the problem.

https://youtu.be/5t0ix1tNl8o

Whilst on the subject of Bodmin Moor, this news has just come through....
Dark Sky (does it really exist?)

http://www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/sound-bites/item/4629-bodmin-moor-awarded-dark-sky-landscape-status

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Jul 9, 2017 10:36:26
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Thought you may like to see a video of the stones just a mile away from where I live. Being a 'monitor' for Historic England's HAR officer in my area I shot the film for her as there is talk about infilling the 'ponds'.
Personally, purely from a 'looks nice as it is' angle, I like it like this, but of course it can't be ignored having already been re-erected in the 30's I believe.

It is the most beautiful and quiet spot which in early evening is visited by hordes of ponies coming down to drink from the natural waterholes just to the south of the circle and is a wonderful sight. Of course many also ignore them and head straight for the circles ponds instead, which of course just
exacerbates the problem.

https://youtu.be/5t0ix1tNl8o

Whilst on the subject of Bodmin Moor, this news has just come through....
Dark Sky (does it really exist?)

http://www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/sound-bites/item/4629-bodmin-moor-awarded-dark-sky-landscape-status

That's a nifty change of direction Moss :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_earth

M Monganaut
Monganaut Jul 14, 2017 22:27:01
Replying to moss

Oops wrong bit of thread, soz (bloody tablet).

Gotta say, last time I was holidaying at Bodmin about 5 years back, the sky didn't seem that dark to me, even during my 2 a.m. wanderings. Mind you, locally those newly installed LED lights do seem to give less upward pollution than the old sodium lighting. For me, it's not so much light as sound pollution, depending on wind direction, traffic/aircraft noise can be very intrusive to some spaces (esp up ont' Boddy moor).