Thanks to Tom's research, we drove across Caldbeck common to 'The windswept woman of Caldbeck', (the drunkard rowan), to look for remnants of the tiles made at a tile and bricks works and recorded on an 1863 map. We were successful and I can't believe we hadn't spotted them before!
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| The windswept woman ... |
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| The site of the Brick and Tile Works. |
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| Looking across the pit where clay would have been removed, to the property of Clay Gap, which dates back to 1594 being known as Claye Gappe. |
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| A roadside exposure showing tile fragments... |
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| More clay tiles - and below. |
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A fingerprint in the tile ...I wonder whose that was...
Whilst walking around, we noticed that rushes had some gelatenous lumps on them, on closer examination they looked like eggs or seeds. On our return home and after a bit of research, it appears that they are indeed the seeds of Juncus effusus, which when it rains heavily, albeit briefly, apparently turn into gelatinous lumps as the starches swell and congeal. |
and a few landscapes...love the common....
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