Saturday 14 February 2009

Bidston Hill: Mystery Horse Carving




To me this has the look of a 19th century depiction of a horse. They were the main means of transport in the early part of that century and I imagine that they were in most people's consciousness for most of the time because they were so depended upon; the way perhaps that cars are now for most of us (except me perhaps). There's even the inclusion of genitalia! It is not merely drawn it's carved into the stone fault. Someone had picked it out with chalk at some point before I found it. I find it interesting that the position of the eye coincides with the deep fissure. 

Sean

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