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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 5, 2009 19:36:56 GMT
I have just been climbing Castle Crag from the comfort of the front room settee courtesy of a lovely little program on BBC2. The views from the top are beautiful.
What has intrigued me though are interesting little erections of stones from the spoil of the slate quarry.
The TV program creators had no idea why they were there or who creates them but apparently they are periodically flattened but sprout up again.
This got me thinking as we have come across other similar things in our travels.
Does anyone know anyone who has made one of these little stone thingies on Castle Crag? We made one up in Scotland lat time we were up there.
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Post by kidstypike on May 5, 2009 20:21:27 GMT
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Post by accykeef on May 9, 2009 13:43:13 GMT
It is probably people adding a piece at a time to a pile of slate, similar to the way they add a stone to a cairn on a summit.
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 10, 2009 8:12:29 GMT
They are not really like that. Wish I had a photo so you could see what I mean. They all have one 'standing stone' supported by others around the base to keep them upright.
Mind you, they may well each be done by different people when they go up there as you say, who having seen them previously just decide to start again if they get demolished.
Coachman found a website with some reference to people creating little wayside stone piles and they had a name for them but we can't remember what the name was or where he found it now.
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Post by kidstypike on May 10, 2009 14:24:45 GMT
They are nothing special , just erected,demolished and re-erected as time go by. The piles of stones on the summits ans along paths are called Cairns. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/370591 |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 11, 2009 17:28:34 GMT
Cairn wasn't the name. It was a funny little name that I had never come across before. I can't for the life of me remember what it was though. I keep thinking it was someting like tuku (but it was probably nothing like tuku knowing my memory!)
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Post by trevnhil on May 11, 2009 18:27:36 GMT
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Post by kidstypike on May 11, 2009 20:34:25 GMT
Wouldn't have thought that many Inuit folk had been up Castle Crag......Most Cairns are no more than litter on the fells. In Scotland last year there was a team demolishing a couple of hundred of them on Ben Nevis.
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 11, 2009 21:30:11 GMT
How about.... Inukshuk!!! ;D What did I tell you - nothing like tuku! Yep, that' 'em. We saw a bunch of them up in Scotland but they weren't really inukshuks because they didn't serve as way markers or anything. They began as a sort of makeshift shrine to someone who died in mysterious circumstances. Then more people added their own smaller ones. This year when we passed them the big main one had all but been demolished. I found that rather sad as it had been really fascinating with lots of caves and arches. However, the finding of a clootie well we didn't know about made up for that. |
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Post by trevnhil on May 12, 2009 7:08:43 GMT
Willow said..."However, the finding of a clootie well we didn't know about made up for that." Ah, you were lucky finding one of those. Most of them have now been filled in. The Scottish people have used them to dump lings in. Trev..  |
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Post by accykeef on May 12, 2009 8:10:02 GMT
Could we please keep this thread English.
All this talk of dumping lings in clootie wells is upsetting the Sassenachs!
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 14, 2009 20:36:27 GMT
What are lings?
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Post by accykeef on May 14, 2009 22:34:30 GMT
Lings ain't what they used to be!
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Post by trevnhil on May 15, 2009 6:18:11 GMT
This could be painfully slow............ WILLLOW...  What are 'Clooties'?? Cheers. Trev.. |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 18, 2009 9:36:24 GMT
Clooties are strips of cloth. That's why they are clootie wells because they have strips of cloth tied on the trees etc round about them. Are you talking about clootie dumplings?  |
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What are 'Clooties'??
