Fractured Limestone Outcrop Reclaimed by Scrub Vegetation, 1950

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Fractured Limestone Outcrop Reclaimed by Scrub Vegetation, 1950 — Archive & Atlas

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Fractured Limestone Outcrop Reclaimed by Scrub Vegetation, 1950 — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950

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Someone decided this pile of shattered limestone was worth documenting, which in 1950 usually meant it was either a nuisance someone was proud of clearing, a curiosity someone was proud of finding, or evidence in a dispute no one would ever fully resolve. The angular blue-grey slabs have the look of blasting spoil — stone that came apart quickly and violently rather than being quarried with any patience — and the yellow lichen already colonising the larger faces suggests the pile had been sitting long enough to be forgotten by whoever made it. Low scrub and broadleaf trees have moved in behind it with the quiet confidence of vegetation that knows it will win eventually. Whoever stood here with a camera believed this counted as a record worth keeping, and they were probably right, in the way that all evidence of what the land looked like before the next thing happened to it turns out to matter later.

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