Search
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
- aerial views
- Allonby
- archaeology
- architecture
- art and science
- artificial reefs
- bioturbation
- coal
- coastal heritage
- conservation
- crossings & waths
- dunes
- farming
- fishing
- Foot-and-Mouth epidemic
- fortified churches
- fossils
- Found Objects
- geology
- Guest Posts
- Hadrian's Wall
- haematite
- ice
- industrial archaeology
- industrial heritage
- LIMESTONE
- limestone and drystone walls
- limestone and haematite
- limestone fossils
- limestone limekilns
- limestone pavements
- limestone rock armour
- limestone scenery
- limestone, an introduction
- Marine Conservation Zone
- mud-shrimps
- mudflats
- peat
- peat, bogs and moors
- ports
- quarries
- quicklime
- renewable energy, tide & wind
- RNLI
- rowing
- Sabellaria, honeycomb worm
- salt
- saltmarshes
- sand
- sandstone
- sea-bed & undersea
- seaweeds
- shells
- ships
- slag-banks
- smallholding
- Snippets
- Solway Viaduct & Railway
- Spring & Neap Tides
- stones
- submerged forest
- The 'Energy Coast'
- tidal bores
- tidelines
- Uncategorized
- wetlands
- Writing
Tag Archives: boundary-stones
Waths: fords and borders
On a very low Spring tide in August, my guide Mark Messenger and I crossed and re-crossed the Solway on foot, from England to Scotland and back. We waded across the Firth through the outgoing tide and the flow of … Continue reading
Posted in aerial views, coastal heritage, crossings & waths
Tagged Annan, border crossings, boundary-stones, Edward I, Lochmabenstane, River Eden, River Esk, Solway, waths
Comments Off on Waths: fords and borders
Loom-stones and fish-traps
“It’s a loom-stone. A warp-weight.” We were standing by the cars, at the end of a couple of hours’ walking, talking and guddling in the pools near Allonby, and one of the walkers had been showing us some objects that … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, fishing, stones, tidelines
Tagged boundary-stones, fish-trap, gyroplane, loom-stone, Romans, Solway
4 Comments
Solway Shore-walker 