After several months of painstaking work by Eleanor Green, we have at last managed to erect the information boards for this historic site at Krumlin. Eleanor had to liaise with several bodies from "Culturedale", who funded the boards, the landowner, Natural England and Historic England as well research around the site itself. Meg Dyke is a late prehistoric settlement, of which more details can be found on this link - https://historicengland.org.
Map showing the location of Meg Dyke. The blue crosses are the information boards.
Once permission on the wording had been approved by all the relevant bodies, the information boards were produced and fixed to sturdy frames manufactured by Calderdale Council's carpentry volunteers who are based at Cromwell Bottom. A big 'thankyou' to them for making these.
Jak, Jerry and Angus then excavated the necessary holes to site these boards. It was was hard going in some extremely resistant, rocky ground.
Jerry tackling the rocky subsoil - not the easiest extraction.
You can see how much rock we extracted in this image.
Once we'd dug down 0.6 m, the board frame legs were placed in the holes and levelled. We had (reluntantly) brought 'Post Crete' to fix the legs in place. Fortunately this wasn't required as we had an abundance of excavated stone to ensure firm packing.
The first board on the corner of Scammonden Road, with Meg Dyke in the background.
The second board, just off Saddleworth Road with Meg Dyke in the background.
A reminder to dog walkers, that dogs are prohibited from entering this section of the field.
It took a while, but we got there. Well done team!
