Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

View of Great Ayton Moor from Little Ayton Moor under a spinkling of snow. Highcliff Nab in the distance.

Clear felling on Little Ayton Moor has opened up super views across Great Ayton Moor all the way to Highcliff Nab

A light overnight snowfall hides the debris from the forestry work.

I guess the remainder of the forestry will go in due course.

Great Ayton Moor has a wealth of archaeological features which I’ve posted about many times before. A chambered cairn, a cairnfield , an Iron Age enclosure, and numerous tumuli. Elgee thought that these tumuli, or howes, were arranged after stellar constellations, such as Ursa Major, the Great Bear1Elgee, Frank (1912). The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire: their natural history and origin. Page 24. London: A Brown & Sons. OCLC 776748510.. But this theory seems to have gone out of fashion and is rarely mentioned now.

A good day to be out on the moors.

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    Elgee, Frank (1912). The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire: their natural history and origin. Page 24. London: A Brown & Sons. OCLC 776748510.

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