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Ilkley Moor-Paulus's camp fire

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fitzcoraldo Aug 5, 2006 16:55:56

Replying to Rockrich

I do like this
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/49414
As Chris says "how the stones on the moor would have looked when their cups, rings and ladders were first pecked out."

David Raven Aug 5, 2006 17:10:19

Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:

I do like this
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/49414
As Chris says "how the stones on the moor would have looked when their cups, rings and ladders were first pecked out."

Yeah. I remember someone telling me that the carved stones may have been painted too. And the carved Saxon crosses in Ilkley church were...

When we wandered over the (blackened, smouldering) moor today, we found lots of places where the underlying clay had been oxidised. Patches of vivid red ochre, just waiting to be painted on summat...