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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | 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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