LivingRocks wrote:
The spiral carving was very neatly done, obviously by someone skilled in stone carving – A misguided artist perhaps? The attempt to remove it is being done by crude pummeling & has been going on for over a year now; the original carver I suspect would have destroyed his work very quickly with appropriate tools.
Motivation is interesting when it comes to these things, a stone mason practising his craft maybe and expressing his belief, and anotherperson destroying it in some sort of hatred of pagan symbols. Which makes me think of the Swallowhead Spring, I unpinned this year from the old willow tree a xtian tract with some sort of 'devil' type message, which I presume was addressed to the pagan offerings at this water site, one script trying to overwrite the other........