MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

You've all got it, Kev was right, taxidermist's tools.
Well that lasted a little bit longer! Now we need another.

[Stanley]

Why would 19th C women be interested in this?

[Wendyf]

For their corsetry?

[Stanley]

I think you lot are out to get Stanley..... Yes Wendy, its baleen and was used for stays in corsets. One useful fact, it's often described as 'whalebone', it isn't bone, it's related more closely to whiskers and hair.
Put up the next one?

[Tizer]

Well done, Wendy! I wouldn't have got that.

[Wendyf]

It was Stanley's question that gave me the answer, not the photo!

[Stanley]

I try to be fair..... Fat lot of good it does me.



What and where?

[PanBiker]

I know, it's one of our members (Sunray's) site with a run down of the history. Moved from it's original location. I'll not say, let others have a go.

[Stanley]

Oh good!!

[Stanley]

Come on the rest of you!

[Gloria]

Absolutely no idea.

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

Is it the famous `Barlick Stone' which has the magic property of passing back and forth between Lancashire and Yorkshire via an ancient quantum worm hole?

[Stanley]

Daft as it looks you are on the right track Peter.
Ian! I think you had better enlighten the congregation, nobody is anywhere near this one.

[plaques]

Definitely a Yorkshire man that tried to escape into Lancashire ignored the instruction not to look back and was turned into stone. He was later recaptured put behind bars and now on display in Letcliffe park as a warning to others.

[Stanley]

Wonderfully inventive and deserves a prize but sorry, not correct Ken!

[Big Kev]

It shouldn't really be where it is...

[Stanley]

He knows as well. Will somebody please post the answer!

[PanBiker]

It's known as Robin Hood's stone and is situated in the Wirral. It's got nothing to do with the bloke with the longbow though.

[chinatyke]

According to Bing it is in Allerton, Liverpool. I've never noticed it so I don't know who is right.

[Gloria]

Googled it, and it makes interesting reading.

[PanBiker]

From our member Sunray's site:

The Journal of Antiquties - Rob Hood's Stone

[Stanley]

Right, that was it. I doubt if there is any connection with arrows even, never mind Robin Hood! Glacial erratics often have grooves in them as do rocks they pass over.
Next one?

[Tizer]

There was an article about the conservation and restoration of the Calder stones in a 2019 issue of Current Archaeology magazine. They were taken to London then back again. LINK

[Stanley]

Another stone. What is it?