Hi all,

me and the lady went to Daylesford the other day and on our way back we notice these small hills with trees on top of them and around them. We are struggling to work out why somebody would plant trees on these hills or what these mysterious hills are about ? See attachments.

Anyone got ANY idea ?

Thanks !!!

M

I doubt if trees are particularly discernible about where they drop their seeds, or birds where they poop, squirrels where they hide their cache But what came first? The hills or the trees?

Ok, the missus says the following:

"There are no squirrels in Australia and the trees came after the mounds as evidenced by the trees growing on top of the mounds"

These are Saxon burial grounds dating from about 900 AD. The trees came later.

That one took me a few moments

Piles of earth from roadworks. Trees were probably there or around there when the earth was dumped on and around them. Or even baby trees amongst the earth that was dumped there.

If it was anything known to be special, I expect someone would be trying to make a dollar out of it.

I see you have that user name for a reason ! Thank you.

How do you know if the trees are growing on top of the mounds or through the mounds?

Mind you, I think it's a combination of Rasen and SH's answer and it's squirrels dating from the Saxon period who are to blame.

Brissybee's answer is far too logical and should be discounted completely.

Stones removed from fields, placed in piles on the side, soil blown on them and trees grown on top.

All depending on where they are they could be mullock heaps from the mining and the seeds have just germinated there

As Quoll says they look like mullock heaps from gold mining, the shaft was dug in the middle and the dirt or mullock was piled up around the hole.

You are all looking at this too simplistically. The ground elsewhere has settled leaving a small but stubborn area of high ground. The trees were already there, but where the ground has settled, the other trees became unstable due to the reactive soil, fell over and have since disappeared.

TD

Exactly my thoughts, seen similar all over the country. Often farmers stack the stones around the trees as it's unuseable space, ie, won't get sown, sprayed etc. Eventually soil etc builds up

My Ballarat born husband confirms, mullock heaps. Plenty of them in the Golden Triangle!

I love all the bizarre theories, those mullock heaps are everywhere around there.