I decided to walk around ‘The swamp’ for a change. This is a part of the golf course I rarely go. On the way to it we discovered newly placed chestnut posts and wire blocking some pathways! Had to cross the brook of Plenty by using a pallet as a stepping stone. We also found a gate on the public footpath with a padlock on. So some real attempts to keep people out beginning to emerge now….Yet the path that bisects the area is totally unrestricted.
According to a security guard on the other side of the A299, who is based in a metal container next to engineering works, The Brook of Plenty which passes under the dual carridgeway has eroded its own tunnel walls and they have collapsed? This requires the lining for the tunnel under the road to be re-lined. Hence the generators and pumping water equipment causing the traffic diversion. Its only a small country lane and I expect hardly anyone has even noticed this.
We saw plenty of magpies and not a lot else apart from another dog walker…taking a strange route just outside the perimeter fence. I thought about following him, but as usual Cosmo wants to walk through the gate and down to where the graffiti tunnel is. I looked at the graffiti again and bits of it remind me of the layered drawings in the pre-historic Chauvet Caves. I can see layers where people spray on top of whats underneath, and this build up reminded me of the many drawings and engravings at the cave.
http://donsmaps.com/chauvetcave.html
This Cave was discovered for the first time less than 20 years ago and it contains the earliest ever examples of art. I find it extraordinary that it was never found before? When I have time I would like to look more closely at ‘Cave Paintings’ I know there is a show at the British Museum called Ice Age Art.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art/about_the_exhibition.aspx
Must get up to London to see that before the end of May.
