The Fylingdales Stone
Carving
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Nearest Town: Whitby (11km NW) OS Ref (GB): NZ935008 / Sheet: 94 Latitude: 54° 23' 37.78" N Longitude: 0° 33' 35.22" W
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Unique Rock Find Amongst Archaeology Yielded by Moorland Fire From an article by Richard Moss, published on www.24hourmuseum.org.uk on 20th December 2004: Archaeologists are pondering one of the most intriguing archaeological discoveries for some years after a fire revealed a unique carved stone thought to be 4,000 years old... continues...
Posted by Kammer
20th December 2004ceEdited 18th January 2005ce
Firestone
Three thousand springs tombed beneath the peat,
each autumn spreads another blanket
to muffle the curlew's sobs,
the pipits all.
One feckless fag end thumbed into the wind
and flame rips away your shroud;
leaves you nude staring up
at clouds.
In a carbonised land of blackened ling,
Saxon dykes, Danish tracks, alum roads,
tank ruts, a scatter of roasted adders
and bird silence.
Astonished at the sun, at the lenses, the men
measure your incised lines, the questions:
boundary stone? map to find Orion?
stone speech?
Or just some hide-clad priest's contraption,
to be unveiled on sacred days to steer
the same old shivering fear safe
into his hands
Harry Nicholson July 2007
From
Voice of the Moors - Magazine of the North York Moors Association.
Issue 90 Autumn-Winter 2007
http://www.north-yorkshire-moors.org.uk/voice_magazine/voice_90.pdf
Posted by fitzcoraldo
8th September 2008ce
The front cover of the long awaited book by Graeme C and Paul Brown featuring the Fylingdales Stone
Coming to bookshops soon-ish
Posted by fitzcoraldo
3rd June 2005ceEdited 3rd June 2005ce