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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: r-man on December 04, 2005, 11:48:18 pm

Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 04, 2005, 11:48:18 pm: Not quite google earth, but fun for a few minutes...

http://www.geograph.org.uk/mapbrowse.php

Best photo of a boulder anyone?

Here's a nice one for starters - on the boggy lower slopes of Beinn Bhuidhe.

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/01/46/014678_76594d5e.jpg)

Been climbed on?
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: clm on December 05, 2005, 05:08:26 pm: looks about four feet high
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:02:28 pm: (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/02/75/027585_17cd7537.jpg)
:wink:
none of lancs though...
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:07:16 pm: Quote
none of lancs though...

Wrong.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:13:18 pm: Quote from: "clm"
looks about four feet high

You reckon?

It's hard to tell.

What about these - knee high to a sheep, or potential for some serious sheep-dwarfing:

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/94/009445_9d854323.jpg)
Summit of Carn Dearg

Or this:
(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/01/14/011490_be39dc41.jpg)
High Teighton How
The sheepfold marked on the map consists of wire fencing surrounding this isolated boulder. Black Crag is shown on the ridge beyond.

Or this:
(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/03/31/033108_b9bb2e3f.jpg)
the Great Stone of Fourstones
Said to have been thrown at England in anger by the Irish giant Finnn McCool, but does the grid square 6666 suggest n even darker origin?
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:16:03 pm: Quote from: "r-man"
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none of lancs though...

Wrong.

Right. none of the quarries is what i meant. unless you submitted one? :wink:
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:21:20 pm: I haven't submitted any. You're still wrong.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:22:15 pm: Not quite big enough. Would be a lovely place for some boulders though:

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/03/34/033444_0cf00af0.jpg)
Morecambe Bay shoreline
The small hill is a drumlin, left by the ice age, and now exposed in profile through erosion. The large boulders are remnants of the 'disappeared' section.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:28:09 pm: great stone of fourstones... is that in the midlands? if so, it's sandstone like in font but it's what's left over from the building needs of men. also because it is sacred.

check mail :wink:
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:29:14 pm: These look more promising:

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/04/71/047120_c672f9bb.jpg)
Perched boulders, Redpoint

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/02/45/024556_963b86e5.jpg)
The Narnaim Boulders
Taken early on a cold morning this photo shows the Narnaim Boulders beside the Allt a' Bhalachain with Ben Arthur (The Cobbler) in the background

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/02/97/029777_4f584a90.jpg)
Dovehole Boulders
An idyllic spot in the woods, a favourite place for climbers

Is that last one northumberland? Looks nice.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:32:44 pm: (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/45/004582_9f2cad22.jpg)
no that ain't me before you ask...
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:35:02 pm: That's what they all say. Next time take a plastic bag and take it home with you. Dirty bugger. Those stones are historic you know.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:38:58 pm: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
jeez, that problem was so scary i nearly shat meself!

can't find any of the quarries though!
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:45:56 pm: (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/07/42/074239_48ec5e9b.jpg)
Summit Brennand Great Hill
At 474 meters this boogy moorland is home to several large boulders which look like resting elephants when approached in mist.[/b]
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: r-man on December 05, 2005, 09:46:44 pm: Quote from: "andi_e"
great stone of fourstones... is that in the midlands? if so, it's sandstone like in font but it's what's left over from the building needs of men. also because it is sacred.

No, it's more northern.

(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/03/31/033106_39b4c618.jpg)
the Great Stone of Fourstones
4m high and 27m circumference. The other three smaller erratics were allegedly broken up centuries ago for scythe sharpening stones.

If you're still looking for quarries, there's a pic of anglezarke.

Damn, I must be bored.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 09:53:38 pm: YEAH! that's what i'm talking about!
(http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/15/001523_1773df13.jpg)
And i'ts Lester Mill anyway!

so where are the fourstones?
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: andy_e on December 05, 2005, 10:03:55 pm: more of the great of four:
(http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/34711.jpg)
(http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/34584.jpg)
(http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/34581.jpg)
looks good
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: SA Chris on December 06, 2005, 08:24:27 am: Robin, Narnaim Boulders are in Stone Country if you want more info.

And yes, Dovehole Boulders are in Northumberland.
Title: "Photograph every grid square!"
Post by: Jim on December 06, 2005, 12:11:15 pm: What is this? photo's of the log'est looking boulders in the country. If your that keen, take a week off and go to Wales or Scotland, there full of em