2015

NS7711 : The North-South Line at Multiverse

taken 9 years ago, near to Knockenstob, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland

The North-South Line at Multiverse
The North-South Line at Multiverse
The stone avenue is 350m long, passes through the Sun Amphiheatre and ends at the Omphalos.
Crawick Multiverse

A restoration of the remains of a 22 ha open-cast mining site just north of Sanquhar on the Queensberry Estate of the Duke of Buccleuch [who has privately funded the project], with land forms designed by Charles Jencks around the themes of space, astronomy and cosmology. The site was apparently left to go back to nature after the mines closed about 30 years ago, and used for motor cycle scrambling, probably unofficially. The new Multiverse opened in July 2015, but is still very much a work in progress and evolution. Eventually four ecosystems will be represented – grassland, mountains, gorge and desert. It is a modern day collection of henges, stone avenues and features, made from thousands of boulders found on the site, cast aside as mining removed the overburden to get at the coal. The coal measures are of Carboniferous age, but surrounded by much older Ordovician rocks – shale, mudstone and sandstones, so there is a variety of rocks in the features, many with carboniferous fossils and patterns of sedimentation. A pleasant day out, particularly if the sun shines as it did when I visited, although facing south from the high point not so good for photography. LinkExternal link ,LinkExternal link


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Geographical Context: Lowlands Quarrying, Mining Park and Public Gardens Primary Subject: Avenue other tags: Coal Mine Tip Land Form Sanquhar Multiverse Crawick C. Jencks Dumfries and Galloway Nithsdale Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · North-South Line [20] · Omphalos [3] ·
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M J Richardson   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 13 August, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 14 August, 2015
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 7764 1178 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:23.0809N 3:55.9776W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 7764 1133
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NORTH (about 0 degrees)
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