Looks like a good year for beech nuts - a mast year as foresters call it.
Beech mast is the nuts and the shells, which were formerly eaten by pigs. Where land owners granted the right of pannage to villagers, they wee allowed to take their pigs into the woodland to feast on the beech mast.
The nuts are ripening now inside the shells which are currently soft and green but will be hard and brown by autumn.
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