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Minninglow

Burial Chamber

Minninglow (Burial Chamber) by thesweetcheat Minninglow seen from Hob Hurst's House, away to the northeast. Ey up Stu.
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Raving on the Moors Part I – Gibbet Moor 9 November 2016
thesweetcheat Image Credit: A. Brookes (9.11.2016)
Posted by thesweetcheat
13th November 2016ce
Edited 23rd November 2016ce
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Comments (5)

Minninglow seems to be omni present and very menacing from afar Posted by costaexpress
13th November 2016ce
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. thesweetcheat Posted by thesweetcheat
13th November 2016ce
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. spencer Posted by spencer
13th November 2016ce
But then the deforestation was false? Humankind crossing the Rubicon and falling into the irreversible trap that was 'farming'? GLADMAN Posted by GLADMAN
13th November 2016ce
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. Posted by costaexpress
14th November 2016ce
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