Updated 7 Jun 2009
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Planting a new oakwood in Dorset
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Inverted tree stump, June 2009
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While deepening a silted ditch, an inverted tree stump was uncovered.
The ditch was once an arm of the River Stour 1 mile West of Wimborne
Minster, Dorset, known as the "Old Mill Stream" supplying a mill with
waterwheel, now vanished. The stump was sawn flat, and the flat rested
on the original gravel bottom of the stream. Dimensions are:
Girth 68 cms, overall length 106 cms. The wood was very heavy, black with
age, and neatly sawn about 60 cms above the roots. The post hole is next
to a large piece of sandstone, not yet recovered. The gravel bottom is
170 cms below the present grass surface.
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67b.
Trunk and roots, length 106 cms.
(it was the other way up in the stream!)
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67d.
Post hole filled with pebbles and a scale running
from 0-160 cms to record water level above ditch bottom.
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67a.
Post hole next to two large Sandstone blocks. The layers are:
grass and soil, artificial fill of gravel, clay and lastly
the gravel bottom of the original stream.
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67c.
Excavated ditch, now 170 cms deep, 10 metres South of the river.
This part of the ditch had been artificially filled, cutting off water to
2km of mill stream.
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