Field Report on Roundway 3
I visited the
site on a damp and overcast morning (11.12.11). The formation
was easy to find as it is clearly visible from the track.
There seemed
little evidence of previous visitors both to the site and
within it. The soil was moist and easily depressed. I could find
no random damage to plants and only one clear footprint in the
soil near the edge and certainly no series of track that one
would expect from systematic pacing. My overall impression
upon entering was a generalised consistency of lay that was
effected to the tall, brown,
brittle and dead plant material only, left over from last or
previous seasons. This material had in all cases, snapped at
ground level . (The formation was located in set-aside land that
is sometimes referred to as a bug strip.) The regrowth of almost
woody stemmed canola or rape seed plants from earlier in the
year was left standing with no marks whatsoever and appeared
strong and healthy. This particular observation felt
significant. The only other anomaly noted was clear evidence of
phototropism in a more fleshy and delicate pale green plant
mainly to the outside edge of the formation, where the plants
were attempting to recover to a vertical position after having
been clearly bent over somehow.
I met a
gentleman later on who walks the hill opposite daily and he said
the formation had been there about two weeks...hence the
phototropism. Overall , the formation gave me a good feeling.
