Andy B
(2012-01-26) | Anne asks if the round marks on the hillside could be crop marks showing the outline of round barrows? |
caradoc68
(2012-01-26) | I believe they may be cattle feeder marks. |
TimPrevett
(2012-01-26) | Yeah, inclined to agree - look like where circular rimmed feeders have been placed and moved on. But I have to ask, where is the erosion from livestock movement? |
Andy B
(2012-01-26) | Also note that one goes across the fence line, although the fence does possibly look quite new. |
davidmorgan
(2012-01-27) | My guess is that this photo was taken on the Diamond Way footpath at 51.860506, -1.860048. The circles are the probably marks (erosion) made by sheep around feeders. And the bump on the top of the hill is a natural feature. |
frogcottage42
(2012-01-27) | although feeders are the likely culprit some of the circles are bisected by the fence line? also there is little sign of animal foot traffic and whenever I put round bales in the field I try to avoid putting them on steep slopes because of the risk of turning the tractor over.
Maybe it was simply round bales of hay which have been eaten and placed without a feeder ring? |
caradoc68
(2012-01-27) | Cattle feeders, to feed cows. The ground would of taken many years to to recover after these feeders were taken up. If you could Bring up Yarlington ( Somerset ) up on Google earth. You can see that the land around Yarlington is scattered with these cicrles. |
caradoc68
(2012-01-27) | Also the one's taken in this lovely photo, are quite old. The Farmer would of had enough time to put up a fence. Hope this helps !.... |
AngieLake
(2012-01-28) | frogcottage - It's not just turning the tractor over (as mentioned in your comment above). Tragically, a round bale of hay rolled down a steep field in S.Devon in summer 2010 and killed a man driving past in his delivery van in the road below (he was a well-respected musician, and member of ELO in their heyday.) I was in a bus that passed that spot asn hour or so earier, on the way to Kingsbridge, and coming home we had to do a very lengthy detour because the road was still closed. Poor man. I hope most farmers are as thoughtful as you. |
h fenton
(2012-02-01) | These are not marks from cattle feeders they are mushroom rings, also known as fairy rings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring |
TimPrevett
(2012-02-01) | They look too uniform to be fairy rings for me; ones I've seen are very distended or don't even go all the way around! :o) |
frogcottage42
(2012-02-02) | Angie, I can well imagine the potential for such a tragedy the bales of Haylage we use here weigh around 3/4 ton and would kill you just by rolling against you.
With regard to the marks, we place feeders every year and once the cows are in for the winter the arks start to go and by next spring they are almost undetectable. I guess ground conditions locally make quite a difference. |
AngieLake
(2012-02-02) | I'm sorry, but I can't help it.. have raiders of the lost arks been at work here? (ouch!) |
frogcottage42
(2012-02-03) | Ooh typo opens door to dodgy pun! (should have been _marks_!) |
AngieLake
(2012-02-03) | Ha!ha!! I knew arks had something to do with farming! http://www.animalarks.co.uk/ ;-) |
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