Hill Markings West Linton?

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scottpix

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Oct 27, 2013
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Having a wee wander on Google earth and found these markings down by west Linton and Dunsyre, could it be forestry workings, be interested in your thoughts folks.

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Muncus

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It will be were the heather has been flailed, like Toddy said it is to encourage new grow for grouse.

It would seem the gamekeeper was feeling creative when they did that.

They flail when they have been denied permissions to burn by Natural England. From what I have seen it seems to encourage less of a monoculture than burning as the layers beneath the heather survive.
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Toddy

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Now that makes sense :) it explains the regularity of the stripes. Even carefully controlled burnings, with lots of folks at hand to beat it out, end up kind of 'organic' shaped.

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dewi

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May 26, 2015
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It obviously aliens... no other explanation for it... its the hillside version of crop circles.
 

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