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| Summit of Cothelston Hill, Somerset. |
In May, in a post about The Old Drove Road and Dead Woman's Ditch, I mentioned a dispute over the trees on Cothelston Hill in Somerset. Their roots were disturbing a rabbit warren at a site where there are also Bronze Age remains.. Which should go? Trees or warren? A local and prominent landmark? Or a historic but not immediately visible hang out for rabbits? (Food in the old days!)
The solution? Sensible. The trees (planted only forty years ago) will be felled and new ones planted nearby. (Somerset County Gazette.) Ancient Monument and Modern Landmark preserved. Both.
I hope none of the trees you are following have been destroyed since last you wrote whether by archaeologists or recent lightening! We'll find out.
(P.S. Thanks to Rowan who points out that despite what it says in the article, it can't be a Bronze Age rabbit warren because there weren't any rabbits here then.)
(P.S. Thanks to Rowan who points out that despite what it says in the article, it can't be a Bronze Age rabbit warren because there weren't any rabbits here then.)
Incidentally, I took this picture on Saturday (4th July 2015) and I'm writing this on the 6th; and I've just found an article in The Western Morning News . . . about walking up Cothelston Hill. It doesn't give the year but perhaps Martin Hesp was up there taking pictures from roughly the same places at roughly the same time as me. Bang goes another post!
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One thing I know for certain (I think!); he won't have been writing about your trees. At least (says she, covering herself) not all of them. Not all on the same day!
So let's hear it from the Tree Followers.
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