322 - Even the most mundane of objects can be transformed with the addition of snow and ice. Here a piece of barbed wire is decorated with a scattering of ice crystals
Thank you Tony - this fence will be quite old, but I really have no idea how old. It is next to a cycle path north of York, in a coppice of woodland which used to be inaccessible before the cycle path was built about 10-15 years ago. It certainly pre-dates that by quite a while.
@if1 Thanks Ian, I was going by the pattern of the barbs, they have changed so much over the years. We visited an outback museum a few years back and they had a complete wall dedicated to barbed wire over the years.
Now that's something I hadn't even considered - to me barbed wire has always just been barbed wire. I'll have to do a bit of historical research and see if I can discover anything about it's evolution here!
I don't have that much spare time, but I've just spent some of it browsing the internet and discovering all sorts of things about barbed wire. It's history is recorded at http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire, there is a museum in the USA, in Kansas, and Amazon UK has several books about it. All this interest in something I'd never really thought about!
@if1 Looks like you've found more information than I thought was available. I've used barbed wire as an Army Engineer and later in life as a part-time farmer. Nasty stuff. Thanks for following up on this thread.
A big thank you to you all for your kind and generous comments. I appreciate each and every one!
Thank you Tony - this fence will be quite old, but I really have no idea how old. It is next to a cycle path north of York, in a coppice of woodland which used to be inaccessible before the cycle path was built about 10-15 years ago. It certainly pre-dates that by quite a while.
Now that's something I hadn't even considered - to me barbed wire has always just been barbed wire. I'll have to do a bit of historical research and see if I can discover anything about it's evolution here!
Thank you both for your very kind comments!
I don't have that much spare time, but I've just spent some of it browsing the internet and discovering all sorts of things about barbed wire. It's history is recorded at http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire, there is a museum in the USA, in Kansas, and Amazon UK has several books about it. All this interest in something I'd never really thought about!
Thank you Kristin, and thank you for the fav!