Purbeck Oak

Walking new paths always leads to new discoveries, discoveries like this mature Oak tucked away in woodland a boundary, positioned on the confluence of two hillside streams. I've not come across any trees of this age before in Purbeck, I'm sure there are some, just I've never found them. This gnarly fellow, at about 5.5m in circumference, so, say 350 years old, sprouting from its acorn about the time of the English Civil War. Lovely find.