High up on the summit ridge of a Pennine Fell in Northumberland or Cumberland there's a shepherd's cott. In fact they can be found dotted all over the place. Some have found new life as resting places for the grouse-shooting fraternity while others have been restored by the MBA (Mountain Bothies Association) and many more allowed to fall into ruin or even disappear altogether.
The sequence of sketches shown here are of one such in the last category. It no longer exists. The fell featured on the middle right page is where it was , Halton- Lea Fell overlooking the village where I lived nearly forty years ago. So the building shown here is how I imagined it might look having noted the placing of the foundations and the faint path leading to where the door could have been.The cliff is no more than five or six feet high and my guess is the bothy would be a lead-to affair.
Its an interesting little side-project, - another work-in-progress.
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