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Wallington stone

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Here's a nice stone. Half way up the groove - an artificially widened bedding joint - are two or three marks that look like the scars from a wedge or chisel. We know the people around here were carving stone moulds for copper or bronze casting (a mould was found in Croglin two miles away) so the stonecarvers must have been good, if not the best. This rock is Millstone Grit, the hardest sandstone, so it weathers well and the mark defines the stone so perfectly (I guess it was formerly upright) that natural forces shouldn't be suspected. Not far from it is a tall stone with a hole through the top, two Megalithic inches in diameter - but sadly no photographs of it yet. I'll post a picture of the Wogglestone, also part of this cluster, in two secs. It's cute (and entirely unvisited).

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/36796