Fir Platter

This was made in 2003 from a piece of Douglas Fir left after felling operations at Bellever Forest on Dartmoor in Devon.

The platter keeps the marks of all the tools which have worked on it, from the chainsaw that cut the tree down to the gouges used in finishing.

 

 

A view of the Granite Outcrop (known as a tor) at Bellever, surrounded by the forest which this tree grew in and then the moorland of Dartmoor. The photos below were taken by and are copyright of Beci Cole

 

		Me and Nick Batie carry the slice of wood out of Bellever Forest
Powder mills viewed from Bellever Tor

 

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