MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Steeplejerk]

Looks like it's studded

[Steeplejerk]

ignore my last comment

[Steeplejerk]

Carnac ??

[PanBiker]

Oh that's a good one I reckon Tom.

[Tizer]

A good try, but wrong!

[Stanley]

From the regular pattern of the dots I reckon it's a human activity and the favourite is tree planting but you say that it isn't that. So I am struggling, I shall go away and have a think!

[Steeplejerk]

Blasting at a quary or mine ??

[Big Kev]

Are they tank traps?

[PanBiker]

That's another good one Kev, Maginot Line?

[Tizer]

Not Maginot or tank traps. Stanley has twice suggested tree planting but he should have continued digging. Tom is in the right area with `mine' - but what type of mining and what for?

[Steeplejerk]

Trees,digging,mining is it opal mining ?

[Tripps]

Looks like digging rather than planting to me, and a bit like Grimes Graves, but it's a bit too symmetrical?

Something geological?

[Tizer]

Not opal,Tom, and not flint (Grimes Graves), Tripps. But your both correct in that something useful was being dug out of the ground, but what and where.

Tom is right in that opals are mined in Australia in the same way that flint was mined at Grimes Graves.

[Steeplejerk]

I said opal earlier but I meant to say Amber

[Tizer]

You were on the right track with opal - amber washes up on beaches. A clue it's in England.
I'm logging out now and I'll check in tomorrow morning - but I'm never up as early as Stanley!

[Steeplejerk]

I always thought Amber was vitrified tree sap ?

[Gloria]

Lime hushings?

[Stanley]

Is it a pattern of small holes dug in an effort to find specific strata?

[Gloria]

Peat?
Coal outcrop?

[Tizer]

I always thought Amber was vitrified tree sap ?

Yes, Tom. What we see for sale in the UK has traditionally been from ancient trees in what is now the Baltic area. Some collected there and sent to the UK for sale and other amber which has floated and been carried by ocean currents to wash up on the UK shoreline. You prompted me to look further (thank you!) and I find that it is now also mined in various countries.

Gloria, the mystery object isn't showing lime hushings or peat diggings. But you and Stanley are right - they are bell pits dug way back in the past for coal, not as test pits but to actually mine the coal. They couldn't dig very deep at the time and would abandon a pit and dig a new one next to it and son, hence the pattern. After being abandoned they collapsed leaving circular depression.

Now what is the location? It's not too far from Barlick!

[Wendyf]

Is it Bentley Grange?

[Tizer]

No, not Bentley Grange. Look north-east.

[Stanley]

Hartshead Moor?

[Tizer]

No, as I said to Wendy you need to look north-east from Barlick.

[Stanley]

Lead mining Grassington and Pately Bridge?