For once I wish I took a camera with me on a ride.

On a ride yesterday around Win Hill in the Peaks the Foresters were logging and had cleared a circa 10metre high cut onto the land. This showed a slice of land down (like a piece of cake), the grass, then loose earth, hardening slate (brittle still) then a layer of sold gritstone (probably 1/2meter horizontally), then…… the blackest solid bedrock that I’ve ever seen- circa 5metres high This only went on for circa 10meters along the cleared trail. Then it shifted to layered gritstone again?

Oily looking stuff- could it be oil!?!!

Shale grit? BGS have a good online map.

Bowland shale?

BGS report

Mud stone (arenacous)?

there are hydrocarbons in the Peak associated with the lead mineralisation

Could be Bowland Shale (found an image)- it looked like an enormous piece of this

Got any pics?

Will do Sunday am

Did it look grippy enough for you Hora? 🙄

There are no marbles glued into the land in the Peaks. Yes there is mud, some of the cheeky has mud currently but its **** fun 😀