Walking to 'Bransholme Castle' mound
Walking to 'Bransholme Castle' mound off Noddle Hill Way last Friday with Roslyn....
Was expecting winter desolate soggy flatness and maybe a copse on a mound, but it was much more complicated, small, medium, large drains (Holderness drain) and flooded fields in sharp winter light, full of bullrushes, sedges, reeds, willow, alder....gulls and geese, and an unknown (to me) track all the way to Swine.
Mounds, forgotten fort and farm foundations,, hideouts for the inevitable teenage drinking and wild campfires....
Musing about this land at the time of this fortification.....soggy fen lands, damp, malaria, heavy clay soils, full of ducks, deer, eels, fish....how did they navigate these pools, flood lands and streams, what boats, pints, coracles did they make and use...
Can we make some with rafts and coracles with our young people, can we clear drains, learn fishing, make stuff with reeds.......
How oh Lord, can our young people relate and learn to love their land? Liz D
of 'Bransholme Castle'
