Velvet Bottom & Long Wood Walk From Cheddar Gorge, PART V, 'Down An Old Track by Long Wood' by Sheil
Channel: semw52
Date: 2018-07-20

The archaeologist within  allows me to have keen vision for objects from the past surfacing and hence I spend about 10 minutes digging out an old whisky bottle embedded on the pathway and possibly an old tobacco tin----Was this a special place of someone  who has had this bottle and tobacco tin buried---?? may be BUT I collect old bottles so it ended up in my rucksack filled with earth and heavy-ish. Anyway I carry on the walk and skirt Long Wood down the West Mendip Way track---another place steeped in  lead mining history and pot-holes and beneath gateways to the huge caving chambers of Cheddar Gorge hidden in the wood and usually locked.......Not far until I reach the gate for Velvet Bottom....