Vandalism at Hawkstone, Dean | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

jacksprat Sep 11, 2006 09:29:26

Sorry everyone - I posted this but it didn't show up on the forum so I'm trying it again. If it is posted already I've locked the old post. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I went back to the Hawkstone yesterday and was appalled to find that somone had used a key, or similar, to cut the initials MW into the stone.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/50972

I have been to the site three times in as many weeks and I didn't notice it last weekend so I think it's new. Unfortunately due to my ongoing Sepriph PhotoPlus nightmare, I had to take the image with my phone so the quality's not brilliant. I tried rubbing the marks but stopped in fear of rubbing the lichen off and making it more noticeable.

I am furious about this. I've developed a real affinity with this stone and the site is the only place I've come to where I have actually felt my mood change, I feel something I can't explain when I go there.

MW, I doubt you can read or visit TMA. On the off chance you can and do, though, come back to the Hawkstone this Sunday. A six foot, 15 stone rugby player is waiting to reeducate you...

nigelswift Sep 11, 2006 10:05:30

Replying to jacksprat

Hi Jack, why don't you join the HA forum from here http://www.heritageaction.org/
This issue is just asking to be publicised as an item in the Heritage Journal.

Jane Sep 11, 2006 15:09:05

Replying to jacksprat

Gah! I'm as disgusted as you, jacksprat!

muddymick Sep 11, 2006 17:08:54

Replying to jacksprat

hi jack - and the rest of the gloucester womens rugby tem. unfortunately it was I. while participating in a shamanic wiccan druid north american indian bhakti-shakti rosicrucian rite, i needed to sigilise my name up on the keystone. having done this with my crystal scepter, and not being very adept at sigilisation, i left the mark MW. i had started scratching the m when my lower vertebrae started to ache. so walking round the stone and hanging over it i wrote another m (MM for muddy mick) unfortunately for those who only see from only one perspective it looks like mw. i will be down this sunday and hope we can share tea and muffins, after which i will reactivate your chakras and rebirth you to a Welsh hedgewitch, thereby given you a quantum jump forward in the evolutionary scale. regards- muddymick