A Keen Eye
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| A skull and cross-bones etched into the brick of a village 'clink' |
One element of the Ragged Ramblers' 'toolkit' is a keen eye for the quirky and unusual...
We are always delighted to find some curiosity or the other - often hidden away, but sometimes merely overlooked by the Sat-Nav mindset which leads to functional tunnel vision.
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| 'Ragged Ramblers' initials, attributed to Osbert Fropcock, RSAR (sourced from his diary entry of Sept 21st 1887) |
Look up and around; down and beyond... Be curious and you will discover hitherto neglected treasures...
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| St James Mill, Norwich - reflecting in the river Wensum |
~ Esotericus ~
A wonderful post and a great Skull and Crossbones upon the brickwork and not a hint of profile which as any Ragged Rambler will know dates this Skull to any time after the late seventeenth century. Although judging from the wear/erosion to brick material ratio on this example and the subject matter, I would suggest that it is is no more than 150 years old and probably carved by young nere do wells idling their time away.
ReplyDeleteR J Oonstead (Deceased)