Field Trip

In retrospect this wasn't the best day for it. It was blowing a gale and the rain felt increasingly torrential. Half way up the hill, soaked to the skin with clay caked to the bottom of my walking boots with the wind blowing my sodden hair across my face so that I couldn't see where I was going, I realised it was an act of folly. However, it seemed daft to give up having got that far so I carried on to the top. Most of the handful of shots I took have big rain splashes all over them; this is one the few that I managed after wiping the lens (slightly) dry(er).

Anyway, this crater is one of the 160 Neolithic flint mines on Harrow Hill in Sussex. More information can be found here. In the background are the hills on the other side of the valley. Honest! There was a herd of deer in the valley but it was raining far too much for me to get my DSLR out and capture them. Sadly it was the same story for the wonderful trio of stags who lept over the fence in front of me and rejoined the rest of the herd, and also for the large bird of prey that hovered overhead for a while. Sigh.