Mundon Oaks, inside tree, 2013
Detail of a dead Oak tree at Mundon, Essex.
Stuart Bowditch
The second of two recordings.
It was my birthday so Damien Robinson and I decided to head out early in the morning to see the Mundon Oaks. Luckily for us it was a foggy morning which added loads of atmosphere to an already curious and interesting place. I made a couple of recordings of the stillness, one from inside one of the hollow trees and another from outside a different tree (listen to that recording here). I’ve heard these trees described asĀ ‘petrified’, but this is incorrect as petrified trees are fossilised, such as the examples I saw at Curio Bay in New Zealand. These are just dead trees, killed by salt water that leaked in from the River Blackwater many years ago.
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Stuart Bowditch Place
Mundon Copyright
Essex Sound and Video Archive
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