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| We came up to Chatton with Pebbles acting as our guide. It's a lovely drive up to the moor. We parked up at the large, no longer black, shed and tried to ignore what we thought may have been a corpse in the car next to us - don't get involved! After mooching up the hill past some industrial sized clearence cairns we hit the panels...JEEZUS!! To be honest, I had viewed Chatton as 'somewhere on the way to Ketley'. Just shows how wrong you can be. The rock is a ghostly whiteish grey shot through with iron staining. The carvings combined with the colour & texture of the rock give the panel a strange meglithic 'shroud of turin' vibe, wierd I know but that's what I felt. This was a special place, the circles the dominos, the bizarre Television set carving...too much. We finally dragged ourselves away and set off towards Ketley but Chatton hadn't quite finished with us yet. The next panel we came to was Stubobs pecked rock with its lovely pecked grooves and cups followed by the enclosure and Stans 'occulus' with it's strange ziggy-zaggy groove. Chatton is a beautiful place. The landscape has been knocked about a bit over the centuries but it still manages to retain it's power. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo26th May 2004ce Edited 26th May 2004ce
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