Minninglow seen from Hob Hurst’s House, away to the northeast. Ey up Stu.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.11.2016)
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Minninglow seems to be omni present and very menacing from afar
Saw it from the Barbrooks a couple of days later. It reminds me of May Hill in Gloucestershire (although sadly that has no prehistoric site on it), which you can see from miles away in all directions. But I've never seen it as menacing, more welcoming.
I'm with Sweetcheat...never menacing...my fieldnotes sum up my feelings about the place, and they go way back - well, to the '70's anyway. However, I do NOT like the encircling and ever reaching skyward plantation. In fifty years time those central beeches will be totally obscured and it will just be a tree covered lump. Surely the purpose of building both sites at the hilltop was to be seen from afar..the area would have been deforested by then. The tree ring is something false, imo. Someone give me a chainsaw.
But then the deforestation was false? Humankind crossing the Rubicon and falling into the irreversible trap that was 'farming'?
In that case I need to revisit although I have been there a couple of times. I was last there on a cold March morning and it seemed to follow me around, when ever I looked over my shoulder it was there. On the walk up the hill to the enclosure the birds where swirling noisily above the trees rather like an Hitchcock movie and once inside the gate and among the trees it was dark, gloomy and then went totally silent all seemed rather menacing at the time.