#Tag · Kakapo Social

Hugo boosted

Dr Helen Wilson

#SilentSunday #Dartmoor #Devon

A granite doorway in a stone building. The doorway has two uprights with a groove cut on the inner edge. Across the top of the doorway are two more stones, cut on the inside to form an arch and square on the outside. These also have a groove cut on their inner edge, eight-pointed stars or flowers in the corners and the date of 1705 running across the joint between the two pieces. Perhaps surprisingly, the numbers are not carved two each side but 170 on the left and 5 on the right.

Within the doorway is a plank door with iron studs, handle and lock. The doorway is set within walls made of mostly granite laid in regular courses with thick mortar between. To either side are metal handrails and to the left is the edge of a window. Strong sun casts dark shadows within the doorway.

This doorway is on the south side of Meavy Church, Dartmoor, Devon. — A granite doorway in a stone building. The doorway has two uprights with a groove cut on the inner edge. Across the top of the doorway are two more stones, cut on the inside to form an arch and square on the outside. These also have a groove cut on their inner edge, eight-pointed stars or flowers in the corners and the date of 1705 running across the joint between the two pieces. Perhaps surprisingly, the numbers are not carved two each side but 170 on the left and 5 on the right. Within the doorway is a plank door with iron studs, handle and lock. The doorway is set within walls made of mostly granite laid in regular courses with thick mortar between. To either side are metal handrails and to the left is the edge of a window. Strong sun casts dark shadows within the doorway. This doorway is on the south side of Meavy Church, Dartmoor, Devon.

Dr Helen Wilson

@NellytheWillow@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

#SilentSunday #Dartmoor #Devon

Rachel Burch

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

Willows and stream near Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor, #Devon this week. #photography

Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜 boosted

Rachel Burch

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Hazel catkins near Whitchurch Down this week, always a cheering, sight at this time of year, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Yellow Hazel catkins hang from a tree branch.

Rachel Burch

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Hazel catkins near Whitchurch Down this week, always a cheering, sight at this time of year, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

oheso and 1 other boosted

Rick Gaehl

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

The far South West of England is home to many clapper bridges. They are made of large, flat, stone slabs, supported by stone piers, and are mostly medieval in origin.

#Photography #History #Bridge #Dartmoor #Stream #Landscape

A stream runs through winter woodland, with a stone clapper bridge crossing it.

Rick Gaehl

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

The far South West of England is home to many clapper bridges. They are made of large, flat, stone slabs, supported by stone piers, and are mostly medieval in origin.

#Photography #History #Bridge #Dartmoor #Stream #Landscape

Moon 12 boosted

cloudless_sky

@cloudless_sky@norden.social · 6 days ago

#Fotovorschlag ‘Weidetiere’ (grazers) - Dartmoorpony

#Dartmoor April 2006

#cloudless_skyPHOTO #cloudless_skyWILDlife #photography #wildhorse #wildhorsewednesday #pferd #wildpferd #landscapephotography #landscape

A black and white (skewbald?) foal lies flat on the side. The brown mare grazes on the sloping green pasture. Yellow blooming gorse grows behind the foal. In the back - against a blue sky - a grass overgrow hill with pasture land beneath the top.

cloudless_sky

@cloudless_sky@norden.social · 6 days ago

#Fotovorschlag ‘Weidetiere’ (grazers) - Dartmoorpony

#Dartmoor April 2006

#cloudless_skyPHOTO #cloudless_skyWILDlife #photography #wildhorse #wildhorsewednesday #pferd #wildpferd #landscapephotography #landscape

Leela Torres 😷 boosted

Rachel Burch

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social · last week

Thuidium tamariscinum or common tamarisk moss on a willow near Whitchurch Down yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #mosstodon
Historically, moss (not this species), was collected across Dartmoor in WW1 ‘moss drives’, to be used in wound dressings.
More info here:

https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2016/03/21/moss_gatherers/#:~:text=That%20is%20until%20I%20stumbled%20across%20the,prepared%20dressings%2C%20ready%20for%20immediate%20hospital%20service.

Green ferny moss on a prostrate willow branch .

https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk

Moss Gatherers

Rachel Burch

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social · last week

https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2016/03/21/moss_gatherers/#:~:text=That%20is%20until%20I%20stumbled%20across%20the,prepared%20dressings%2C%20ready%20for%20immediate%20hospital%20service.

https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk

Moss Gatherers