Nigel Lloyd – Scale Green – 1983
Photo from official Grizedale postcard
Material: Wood, Stone, Earthwork
Trail: Silurian Way
Theme: Nature
Form: Abstract
Maps Featured on: 1984 – 1994
Status: Decommissioned, pit outline still visible Dec 2018
Quote from the Artist: “Sited close to ‘red deer wallow’ in fact on just the other side of the nature trail… I had wanted to make some kind of earthwork since arriving in Grizedale… The pit… was lined with wood and stone, although not very large – about 3 foot at the deepest point, it took quite a while to ‘dig in’. The excavated earth was built into a mound, covered in stone and turf. Around the pit I placed a series of oak posts carved with a spiral motif.”
Listed as Half Moon Stumps on the 1984 Map. This comprised of two parts, the vertical posts and the crescent shaped pit along side, which was lined with what looks like wood on the bottom and stones along the edge. Sited 50 yards off the path at Scale Green. Listed on maps until 1994. Below is a coloured image of it, showing the stones starting to collapse into the pit.
The pit does still remain, it is positioned just in front of Between Elephants. It was thick full of leaf litter. Digging down slightly I found a few of the slate ‘edge’ stones, the stumps are long gone.
Photograph Taken June 2019
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
For the Birds – 1983
The Fortress – 1983
Red Deer Wallow – 1983
Page last updated April 2020
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