My recent entry about the 'holloways' of Dorset was illustrated with a photograph I took of one such sunken lane several years ago.
 I had another look at the batch of photos taken the same day in and around that dank lane. Since childhood I have always had a palpable sense of something primeval in these locales, a sense that nature is an enveloping force.
 In the case of the motor car in the last image that is literally the case...