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I posted this in the  thread 'The Last Wolf in England' and the actual facts around the strange vandalism seem to
be still well-hidden. Why -during a storm on 28th September of 2023, did someone take it upon themselves
to travel along the remote B6318 road with a chainsaw, cross the windy moorland and lashing rain or arrive
at Sycamore Gap by other means, and commit the act of cutting down the famed tree?

I understand that vandalism requires very little in the sense of high-moral deliberation and is usually done
to effect others via emotionally-negative reactions of the destruction. But to expend time and energy on such
a remotely situated object seems irrational... unless, the reason was so distressing that it needed to be kept
concealed due to a public's outrage would usurp the actual act.

Then what made the tree famous enough that it was cause envy or spite? Annual footfall to that location on
Hadrian's Wall is nowhere comparable to Hollywood's Walk of Fame or London's Ripper Tours, so why did it
attract the eye of someone who wished to possibly offend Roman history-buffs and moor walkers?

What could've been screened in a movie that may've... let's say, displeased a cinema-goer enough that they'd
travel the many miles to the isolated spot and fell the three hundred year old sycamore? The 1991 movie
'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves' was filmed there and there is a short scene where Kevin Costner's lead character
challenges Guy of Gisborne, the supposed cousin of the Robin Hood's nemesis. Is that why the tree was lopped
down?

Did anything else occur there...? Well, there's Morgan Freeman's fictitious 'Azeem the Moor' attempting to find
the direction of east to perform his daily prayer.

It's a puzzle.

Two men arrested in police investigation into felling of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree

The 300-year-old tree was cut down overnight in a shocking act of vandalism

'Two men in their 30s have been arrested and bailed by officers investigating the felling of the
world-famous Sycamore Gap tree, Northumbria Police has said. The tree in Northumberland,
believed to have been about 300 years old, was cut down overnight between September 27
and 28 in what police believe was a deliberate act of vandalism.

Soon after the tree was felled a 16-year-old male and a 60-year-old man were arrested and later
bailed. Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca Fenney-Menzies, of Northumbria Police, said: “The loss
of Sycamore Gap has been felt deeply across the community as well as further afield...'

'...Believed to have been planted by Newcastle philanthropist and lawyer John Clayton in the second
half of the 19th century, it was also known as Robin Hood Tree after it made an appearance in the
1991 Kevin Costner film.

Mr Clayton was a keen excavator of Hadrian’s Wall and was thought to have planted the tree to fill
the dip on landscape which was created by glacial meltwater. Its trunk was removed from the location
on 12 October and is currently being stored in an undisclosed location, until its fate is decided...'

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