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Stone face mystery
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Stone face mystery
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Jingling Geordie
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Re: Stone face mystery
Watto 52D,
I wonder if it had at some time been "looted" from a closed abbey or similar building. Some of these stones may have had a varied history?
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I wonder if it had at some time been "looted" from a closed abbey or similar building. Some of these stones may have had a varied history?
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Re: Stone face mystery
A logical deduction JG
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Re: Stone face mystery
I have walked over the Lune Viaduct many times, but must confess I have never noticed this head. There is a ruined abbey near Barnard Castle where it could have come from, but I would have thought that a keystone was such a specialist piece of stone that it would not be practical to re-work an older carved stone. Maybe it is just some stone mason's indulgeance or a joke along similar lines to the carved heads of monks sticking their tongues out that you can find in York Minster.
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Re: Stone face mystery
60041 makes a good structural point regarding keystones. However the style of the carving is very "medieval".Furtherrmore I can see no reason why an 18th century stone mason would not have carved the stone in a contemporary style. The Gothic Revival was a long way off at the time.
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