How to Read the Landscape by Patrick Whitefield

Author:Patrick Whitefield [Whitefield, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Permanent Publications
Published: 2015-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

An old ash stool. Note the signs of former stems which have died and rotted away.

Eventually old stools can be thinned down to a single stem, but when this happens there’s usually a tell-tale sign of its origin as a coppice stem. This may be a bulge at the base of the tree, the vestigial stump of another stem or a curved base to the trunk, known as a swept butt.

Oak was often coppiced right down to ground level and the stems grow up from the roots rather than from an above-ground stump, so the trees can look deceptively like maidens. But if you look carefully you may be able to see that they stand in small groups and that all the members of each group strongly resemble each other.

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