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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 10:12
by Stanley
You've all got it, Kev was right, taxidermist's tools.
Well that lasted a
little bit longer!
Now we need another.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 03:13
by Stanley
Why would 19th C women be interested in this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 05:11
by Wendyf
For their corsetry?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 06:53
by Stanley
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.
Put up the next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 08:52
by Tizer
Well done, Wendy! I wouldn't have got that.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 09:05
by Wendyf
It was Stanley's question that gave me the answer, not the photo!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 11:24
by Stanley
I try to be fair..... Fat lot of good it does me.
What and where?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 12:05
by PanBiker
I know, it's one of our members (Sunray's) site with a run down of the history. Moved from it's original location. I'll not say, let others have a go.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2021, 12:15
by Stanley
Oh good!!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 02:50
by Stanley
Come on the rest of you!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 07:24
by Gloria
Absolutely no idea.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 07:46
by Stanley
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 09:29
by Tizer
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?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 11:27
by Stanley
Daft as it looks you are on the right track Peter.
Ian! I think you had better enlighten the congregation, nobody is anywhere near this one.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 11:31
by plaques
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.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 12:01
by Stanley
Wonderfully inventive and deserves a prize but sorry, not correct Ken!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2021, 17:11
by Big Kev
It shouldn't really be where it is...
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 03:08
by Stanley
He knows as well. Will somebody please post the answer!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 09:58
by PanBiker
It's known as Robin Hood's stone and is situated in the Wirral. It's got nothing to do with the bloke with the longbow though.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 10:09
by chinatyke
According to Bing it is in Allerton, Liverpool. I've never noticed it so I don't know who is right.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 10:17
by Gloria
Googled it, and it makes interesting reading.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 10:50
by PanBiker
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 11:22
by Stanley
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.
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Apr 2021, 15:47
by Tizer
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
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Apr 2021, 03:02
by Stanley
Another stone. What is it?
