Belas Knapp

Belas Knapp above Winchcombe makes a great walk, listening to the skylarks and visiting the Bronze Age burial mound with its excavated burial chambers. Not that I really want it as a weed in the garden, but the candy coloured flowers of Field Bindweed really are sweet. Plants loving calcareous soil included Quaking Grass and Wild Thyme growing on the long barrow itself.

Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

Bronze Age Burial Chamber

Quaking Grass (Briza maxima)

Wild Thyme (Thymus polytrichus)