Mayburgh Henge.

A desperation blip! If I felt conditions were difficult for photography yesterday today's were awful! Pouring heavy rain.

We had guests coming into the lodge today so I popped out to leave fresh milk and make sure everything was OK for them. On the way back I pass Mayburgh Henge and I thought, silly me, the atmospheric conditions may make for a suitably mysterious shot. Not a bit of it, why doesn't the camera see what they eye does?

So I parked up with the M6 about 3 or 4 yards away to one side and the Henge in the field across the road. I trudges up the "earthworks" (more of that later) and across the 0.6 hectare (1.5 acre) enclosure took a few quick shots, got wet and trudged back. The day was distinctly monochrome so that is what you get.

Mayburgh Henge is Neolithic approx 4500 years old. A large enclosure surrounded by "earthworks" between 10 and 20 feet high. Except the earthworks aren't earth they are stones gathered from the nearby river which I am told is unusual. There is a standing stone in the centre of then closure about 8 or 9 feet high. The entrance shown in the shot looks out towards King Arthur's Round Table (but that is another story for another day).