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| Submitted by | astronomer |
| Added | May 19 2006 |
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Description
This photograph shows the Axstone insitu near Axstones Spring Farm probably taken in the early 1950s by the Macclesfield historian, Walter Smith. Picture curtesy of Doug Pickford.
Posted Comments:
AngieLake (2006-05-19)
How come 22 people logged on to this one before me, and didn't leave a comment? I think it looks really funny and have tried SO hard not to say anything, because it's bound to be droll!!
DavidRaven (2006-05-19)
Ok. I admit it. I looked and my first thought was 'It looks like a nob'. But I'm not gonna post that, am I? (Doh! I just did...)
DavidRaven (2006-05-19)
I assumed it was not very 'nob-like' originally. Did it have a 'cross head' on it?
AngieLake (2006-05-19)
Is this the same stone as the one 'Astromoner' posted on the 'Axstone Cross' page? That one looks the same, but has a different grid ref. It does look taller though. Maybe it's just that it went 'walkabout', so has been allocated two separate sites? (Or dichotomized???) ;-)
thorgrim (2006-05-20)
Well spotted Angie - it is the Axstone Cross so not a prehistoric "nob" at all. I have brought the two photos together and deleted the second spurious site page.
Andy B (2006-05-20)
Just shows how easy it is to let the imagination run riot! Purely chance that it looks like that then, unless it was someone defacing a Christian site to look like a...
astronomer (2006-05-21)
Local folklore certainly supports the idea of these Mercian shafts being phallic symbols. There is little evidence that they ever had cross-heads on them. IF they can be considered as Christian totems (which I doubt), they come from that dark age c 600-900 when paganism was still very much to the fore in the Cheshire-Staffordshire moorlands.
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