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poliphiloWe were leaving Preston yesterday and we came across this little group of stone Vikings (on the slip road leading to the motorway.) I don't know what they're doing there but they've got bits of metal embedded in them and holes in odd places, which suggests they've been salvaged from some building or other.
I did some research (I Googled) and it turns out that Preston is on the Viking highway that runs down the Ribble valley from Jorvik (York) to the Irish Sea. The biggest Viking treasure hoard ever found outside Russia was dug up nearby (at Cuerdale) in 1840.
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Date: 2005-09-17 06:26 am (UTC)The car tyres would be hard-pressed.
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Date: 2005-09-17 03:28 am (UTC)(Of course, they are my kin... Now, excuse me; I've got a monastery to burn and some pillaging that just can't wait 'till Monday!)
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Date: 2005-09-17 03:38 am (UTC)Anyway; is it my fault if those bleedin' monks chose to build their monasteries out of non-CO2-neutral materials?
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Date: 2005-09-17 04:19 am (UTC)They're so unexplained......
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Date: 2005-09-17 04:39 am (UTC)I suppose I don't need everything to have an explanation.
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Date: 2005-09-17 04:21 am (UTC)But there's no clue on site as to where they come from or what they mean.
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Date: 2005-09-17 06:33 am (UTC)Here in Britain there are certain prehistoric standing stones that are supposed to move around when nobody is looking.
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Date: 2005-09-17 06:19 am (UTC)No way would these pieces be left alone here--they'd have been hacked out, written on, smashed up, or stolen.
These somehow don't have a feeling of age to me. Maybe they aren't worn enough.
The holes in them suggest they might be fence posts...
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Date: 2005-09-17 06:26 am (UTC)But I'm having difficulty visualising the fence.
I don't believe they're very old, but the primitive nature of the carving makes them hard to date.
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Date: 2005-09-17 06:50 am (UTC)Love the icon!
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Date: 2005-09-17 09:04 am (UTC)Even down to the protective helmets.....
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Date: 2005-09-17 09:59 am (UTC)I borrowed the one with the road signs to use as my wallpaper. Hope you don't mind.
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