>Nobody's seen anything like this before

Mebbe, mebbe not.

Either way, if I get down the South Tyne, I'll try and get 10 fig refs for your possibles, including altitude, all the while brandishing my special farmer-charmer*, it's made from the hair of a llama farmer (taking care it didn't harm her), I find it makes a farmer calmer, thus minimising trespass-drama.

*As recommended by Simon Schama

Spoing.