I think you lot are out to get Stanley..... Yes Wendy, its baleen and was used for stays in corsets. One useful fact, it's often described as 'whalebone', it isn't bone, it's related more closely to whiskers and hair.
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Stanley Challenger Graham
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Is it the famous `Barlick Stone' which has the magic property of passing back and forth between Lancashire and Yorkshire via an ancient quantum worm hole?
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Definitely a Yorkshire man that tried to escape into Lancashire ignored the instruction not to look back and was turned into stone. He was later recaptured put behind bars and now on display in Letcliffe park as a warning to others.
Right, that was it. I doubt if there is any connection with arrows even, never mind Robin Hood! Glacial erratics often have grooves in them as do rocks they pass over.
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Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
There was an article about the conservation and restoration of the Calder stones in a 2019 issue of Current Archaeology magazine. They were taken to London then back again. LINK
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