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Sorry, We can't promise Anglo Saxon Stonework
Sunday 07 December, 2014
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Anglo Saxon stonework in short supply, but feature boulders make for a busy start to December

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A great story this week ( 5/12/14) of a gardener in Chester who bought a bargain pile of natural stone to build a rockery and discovered that one piece had a ninth century Anglo-Saxon cross carved into its surface.

The stone which is just under 2ft tall and weighs around 60kg is anticipated to fetch upwards of £10,000 when it comes “under the hammer” later this week.

Unfortunately we can’t guarantee you will find anything as exotic in our crates of rockery stone, however, our rocks do show themselves in unlikely places. Just last Sunday we had a glimpse of one of our two-tonne boulders on “Countryfile”. The stone had been supplied earlier in the year and now, suitably engraved, formed a marker to a newly commissioned public art installation in the Forest of Bowland.

This week we called on the services of Stott crane hire to deliver and place a four tonne rounded boulder and fifteen smaller boulders at Lowlands Recreation Ground in Harrow-on-the- Hill. Its fascinating to speculate as to how generations 1000 years from now will view the collection. Will they theorise that the stones were aligned for some ceremonial purpose? or, perhaps discover records to demonstrate that the stones were selected from glacial deposits in North Wales and transported to specially constructed “non competitive” recreation enclosures for pre-adult members of an early twenty first century civilisation to exercise on.

Our images show the loading out of the possible future twenty-first century monument at our facility in Rugeley, together with the stunning 8th century Celtic cross at Kildalton on the island of Islay.


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Sorry, We can't promise Anglo Saxon Stonework
Sorry, We can't promise Anglo Saxon Stonework
Sorry, We can't promise Anglo Saxon Stonework
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