A penny for your thoughts?

Rudston Monolith 7

Image by Chris

David Raven Jun 18, 2006 17:31:52

On a recent trip to the Rudston monolith I noticed that the tradition of pushing coins into trees now appears to include standing stones too.
I was dismayed to find lots of coins thrust into the cracks on the surface of this megalith.

How common is this?
I'm used to folks leaving crystals, stones, shells, feathers etc. at ancient sites, but this struck me as more like vandalism than littering.

Cheers
Dave

ars moriendi Jun 18, 2006 17:45:11

Replying to David Raven

just one penny? cheapskate

ars moriendi Jun 18, 2006 18:02:23

Replying to David Raven

i'm not meaning to be irritating here - but if you break it down out of context; wouldn't 'leaving coins in trees' be classed as 'vandalism'?

sam Jun 18, 2006 18:22:53

Replying to David Raven

I didn't see any at Rudston when we were there - that was about 2 years ago. The worst I have seen was the High Bridestones, they were absolutely covered in them.

Did you leave a comment in the church guestbook - I wrote something along the lines of "nice monolith, shame about the church". Everybody else had written "lovely flowers" or "such nice Chrysanthemums".

sam

rocknicker Jun 18, 2006 21:41:22

Replying to David Raven

There were loads in the little holes at Duddo when we were last there.

I netted about 76p.

Moth Jun 19, 2006 00:11:50

Replying to David Raven

Wouldn't exactly call it common, but I've seen it at quite a few places - esp when the stones have a lot of nooks & crannies.

love

Moth

Chris Collyer Jun 19, 2006 18:07:02

Replying to David Raven

Dave, I've been a regular visitor to Rudston since the early 90's and I've never seen coins pushed into the stone before - that's a bit worrying. Did you remove them?

Like Sam says the High Bridestones have plenty of corroding coinage jammed into the cracks and I'd hate to see it start happening at Rudston too.

-Chris