Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: moorland

A round walk from Lochinver via Glencanisp Lodge Here the path heads south away from the River Inver towards Druim Suardalain and Glencanisp through the hummocky knock and lochan landscape.

Originally uploaded for the GWUK group. This is on Mynydd y Gwair - an extensive moorland commons between Swansea and Ammanford in the South Wales coalfield. The camera location is on Mynydd Garn Fach and is looking north-westerly. The photo shows a Foraky rotary drilling rig on a borehole known as 'Ceunant Borehole' (named after nearby Ceunant Farm just out of view to the left). This was drilled to prove the Red Vein coal seam in October-November 1982 as part of a series of boreholes to prove additional coal reserves for Betws Mine, about 5 km to the north, near Ammanford.

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. This trough carved out of a single gritstone boulder is just outside the perimeter rampart of Carl Wark at Burbage, in the Peak District National Park, near Sheffield. Carl Wark is a spectacular, though somewhat enigmatic, hill fort - probably Iron-age, but with some later Roman usage. The stone trough is even more enigmatic. No-one really knows what it is, or its exact age. Some would like to think it is an Iron-age bath, but it is more likely to be more recent, possibly a horse trough in use during the time of millstone manufacture, of which there is much evidence around and about. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Mynydd y Gwair - an extensive moorland commons between Swansea and Ammanford. Although the general location is mostly known as Mynydd y Gwair, this name strictly applies to an area just to the north (left) of this viewpoint. The camera location is on Mynydd Garn Fach and is looking eastwards. The rounded hill in the centre is Tor Clawdd and the pock marks just below the skyline are remains of old adit coal workings in the Graigola seam. The Upper Lliw Reservoir is just out of sight in the valley below the woodland. This beautiful upland moorland area is only 7 miles north of Swansea city centre, but is now under threat of having an enormous windfarm sited here, with dozens of huge turbines. The planning application has yet to be approved. More details here: www.socme.org/