We visited Wharren Percy in January.
It's the site of a 'deserted' medieval village and it's mysteries were studied for decades by the world's archeologists.
It's owned by English Heritage now. It's a remote spot next to a tiny modern hamlet set in the gentle curves of the misty Yorkshire Wolds, a landscape out of time.
In the churchyard they found evidence of trepanning!
It reminded me of somewhere Jon Pertwee might have landed in the TARDIS, a spooky, almost mystical place.
Essentially it's only the lay-out of the village visible now, foundations from the Middle Ages, and the church ruin.
The team of diggers slept in a farmhouse.
It would have made a good episode for Dr.Who, with the dig team in the Sixties.
On the woodland path leading to the site are ruins of a much later and towering Victorian water mill.
The murky leafy scene immediately made me think of Black Sabbath's eponymous debut LP cover!
There's even a track called Sleeping Village!
Have you visited a deserted place?
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PS. Excuse the hot links, its blogger's daft idea!
Plenty of deserted buildings in Shipley in the late '60s, early '70s Woodsy. Mostly old mills and factories.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, I got into several. Not breaking in, just 'getting' in, in a way that would be impossible now.
Some a bit scary, but most just deserted.
Places where lots of people had been, but were there no longer.
Empty and sad, rather than spooky.
Often signs of vagrants, or other kids having been there before.
Burnt out fires, empty bottles, that sort of thing.
God, the freedom we had to put ourselves in harms way back then.
Hard to believe now.