There's a story here if you look for it.
This is on a hill rise above an old farm road — harder stuff that has not eroded.
The hole at the base of the tree is over 60 years old — first bored into the ground by a groundhog before the tree sprouted, and then kept open with teeth as the tree grew around it, and fillage routinely cleared out while the tree sickened, died, broke over, and rotted.
The broken stone below the hole is excavation by a groundhog — bits of the old ocean bed and Central Pangean Mountains that not only formed these Appalachian hills, but also large parts of upland Scotland and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
The hole has settled and gotten tighter in recent years. Nothing in there now, but still open and likely used by possum and skunk.
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