Saturday 13 August 2016

Stone Way: 12th August

There are stretches of the Way that, due to erosion, have been paved. They make the route clearer and often more even. Like those who reused stones from a Roman wall or a Religious foundation, these slabs have often come from somewhere else. Usually you don't know where. Today (that was 12th August) on the path leading from Roseberry Topping to Guisborough woods there was a stone with it's story on display. Works and symbols on the stone gave a few clues: Trinity, a cross, a fish and a date 1961. About a quarter of a mile further on the other half of the same stone lying in the path next to other plain stones. A cross, a star and the beginning of the word school. So a stone from a school called Trinity now lies broken face up in a path on the North Yorkshire Moors. How long will it lie there telling half a story?

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