The 'Dead Ringer' I mentioned in a post on the 25th of May, which remarked that a mighty Oak on the bounds of Burley Old Enclosure had been ring cut way over 15 years ago, has recently succumbed to the elements, time and its deadly wound. Having been marked for death by some unknown, it was defiant to the end and finally toppled smashing the nearby wooden bar gate to splinters and pulling down a section of fence. The forest appears timeless, and to some degree it is, but it's also always changing; the fallen tree will be removed,the gate and fence replaced and only a stump will remain. Soon you'll never know a mighty tree once held this ground.
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