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Hawthorn Ridge crater

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The two overlapping Hawthorn Ridge craters are overgrown with trees, bushes and undergrowth and cover a total area approximately 450 feet long by 300 feet wide, 29 April 2002. (Ref 02-29-01) The two overlapping Hawthorn Ridge craters are overgrown with trees, bushes and undergrowth and cover a total area approximately 450 feet long by 300 feet wide, 29 April 2002. (Ref 02-29-01)

The enormous crater on Hawthorn Ridge is located immediately west of Beaumont-Hamel, between the village and the Memorial Park.

The crater from the 1 July 1916 Hawthorn Ridge mine was originally 40 feet deep and 300 feet wide.  Today it forms a figure of eight shape as a result of the subsequent British mine explosion on 13 November 1916.

The two overlapping Hawthorn Ridge craters are overgrown with trees, bushes and undergrowth and cover a total area approximately 450 feet long by 300 feet wide.

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Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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