moss
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Edited Aug 12, 2018, 07:34
A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 07:33
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Stone stacking; Though this article covers beaches it does cover cairns and monuments as well, and having seen the Stowe Pound's stone stacking at this settlement it is important to have some rules on the subject, or at least signage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
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Sanctuary
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 09:41
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moss wrote: Stone stacking; Though this article covers beaches it does cover cairns and monuments as well, and having seen the Stowe Pound's stone stacking at this settlement it is important to have some rules on the subject, or at least signage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
Hi moss
The temporary sign (waiting for the real thing) put up at Minions to protect Stowe's Pound from the idiots, was pulled down and removed within four days by one of those idiots no doubt!
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tjj
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 10:32
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moss wrote: Stone stacking; Though this article covers beaches it does cover cairns and monuments as well, and having seen the Stowe Pound's stone stacking at this settlement it is important to have some rules on the subject, or at least signage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
Yet again it seems to about 'us' needing to leave our mark on somewhere we have visited (photo opportunity). The first time I saw a pebble Stonehenge on some remote beach I thought it charming and yet I can see it is a problem somewhere like Stowes Pound where to do this is interfering with ancient history of the place. Easier to imagine stone stacking on a beach would be washed away by tides. On the surface it seems harmless enough so education needs to take place.
Then again Moss do 'we' listen. Sorry to get heavy on a Sunday morning but as I'm now officially an 'older person' can't help reflecting on the changes in life style over the decades which has brought about the real manifestation of global warming in our own life times. (Almost) everyone has a car and can't imagine life without one - multiply that by millions and not hard to see why the planet is warming. Then there's air travel, heavy industry etc. etc. oh, and did I mention cows farting. Put in context stacking pebbles on a beach doesn't seem so bad.
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moss
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 10:59
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To answer both of you, rock stacking (or decorating the landscape, there are a couple of artists who come to mind doing this) is seemingly a harmless practise, and I suspect prehistoric stones have been moved around all over the place over time.
I suspect we now live in a mirror image world, when we stare into phones tjj and then follow everyone elses behaviour patterns. Calling up the ills of the world will not necessarily solve the problem of one issue though, and as a car owner, bloody long walk to Kirkby for the shopping ;)
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tomatoman
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 11:47
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I have one or two American friends who can't resist this pastime on their travels. Anybody seen the practice of wedging coins in tree-stumps? That defeats me, too!
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moss
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 12:47
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tomatoman wrote: I have one or two American friends who can't resist this pastime on their travels. Anybody seen the practice of wedging coins in tree-stumps? That defeats me, too!
Also stones....High Bridestones.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/83316/high_bridestones.html
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Sanctuary
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Edited Aug 12, 2018, 18:16
Re: A growing trend
Aug 12, 2018, 18:12
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tomatoman wrote: I have one or two American friends who can't resist this pastime on their travels. Anybody seen the practice of wedging coins in tree-stumps? That defeats me, too!
Yep, down here in Cornywall at the beautiful St Nectan's Glen just before the waterfall. Then when at the falls the fairy stacks took over. When I rode shotgun for a heritage tour company we used to get visitors from all over who put coins in and build stacks. Of course Cornish folk are supposed to be so poor they never did put coins in ;-)
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186245-d217999-i67451598-St_Nectan_s_Glen-Tintagel_Cornwall_England.html
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Sanctuary
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 17, 2018, 13:54
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moss wrote: Stone stacking; Though this article covers beaches it does cover cairns and monuments as well, and having seen the Stowe Pound's stone stacking at this settlement it is important to have some rules on the subject, or at least signage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
This doesn't help...lovely and clever as it is until an opportunity like Stowe's Poond comes along to practise on.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/23/2018-european-stone-stacking-championship-in-pictures
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Howburn Digger
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 17, 2018, 14:41
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The solution is really quite simple and involves no crime or expensive solutions or even enforcing the power of the Law (or creating new Laws). It simply requires any concerned citizens invoking the power of a couple of Newton's existing Laws and the force of Earth's gravity. We had a really enjoyable half hour lobbing melon-sized stones at these stone-stacked "creations" near Imachar. The following day my well-trained 16 year old cleared the piles on the beach boulders at the front of King's Caves in about 20 minutes. At Torrylinn we "re-wilded" the boulder area in less than 10 minutes, but that was about the fifth day of our Arran jaunt and we were really up to speed by then.
Then we built a bonfire of dream catchers.
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nigelswift
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 17, 2018, 15:30
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Interesting.
And pre-historic cairns?
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