Country diary 1921: mystery of sheep bones found high on Lakeland crag

31 March 1921 No Herdwick ever made its way up to the cave by the route which cragsmen followCumberlandForty or fifty feet up on the Mitre climb on High Side, the greatest of the heights of the Red Pike range overlooking Buttermere Lake, is a large cave. Among the boulders in the cave we found the bones of a sheep. No Herdwick ever made its way up to the cave by the route which cragsmen follow or traversed to it from the rocky ridge on either side. There is no grassy bink hereabouts which a Herdwick could desire to reach. How got the bones there? Related: Country diary: Lake District: Reynard took the goose Continue reading...