Mysterious Rock Carved Symbols

...Like this Fleur-de-Lys motif can be found in secret places all over the moor. The reasons for some of these carvings may be obscure but this symbol was a warning to quarrymen not to take stone from the summits above. © L. Birch 2014

In the Shadow of the Moor

August 16th 2014
A sudden drenching downpour of rain had me diving for cover in the lee of 2 large outcrops tucked in below a towering rock wall, grey and dripping wet from the low cloud scudding across the peak. From my relatively sheltered position, I looked back across the moor toward the shattered summit of Trewortha Tor – only just visible in the almost horizontal rain driving in off the Atlantic out to the ... read more

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