Clinker Community

There are a couple of spots on the moor where coal waste that has been fused through burning has been left in mounds or boulders. This is a legacy of the larger deep pit operations that stopped more than a hundred years ago, rather than the many small bell-pits. While much of the clinker material remains exposed, it is gradually being colonised by new ecological communities.

On top of one of the boulders, I spotted this mushroom. It's about the size of my thumbnail, but it drew the eye, set against the lush green moss and the crumbling clinker. Try viewing large.

atop crumbling mounds
of an industrial past
new community