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An old icehouse, filled with ice during the winter for cooling purposes later in the year. It was one of several sites the children visited under the theme. © Chris Webb
The Gipsy Stone, previously installed by Sites of Meaning, was one of the stones visited by the school children. It was grouped in the Lost and Found theme along with Bateman’s Tomb and Arbor Low. © Chris Webb
Preparing for the 2004 well dressing. Members of the well dressing team with writer David Fine, press clay into the boards. David used the well dressing preparations as a workshop for interacting with the local community. © Charles Monkhouse


   
   
OSOM Community Activity
 Location: Derbyshire



Other Stones – Other Meanings started in the winter of 2003 with a well attended village meeting. Supported by writer David Fine and archaeologist Alice Ullathorne, the meeting identified local archaeological sites the parishioners felt the children should visit. The sites fell naturally into two themes: the role of water in the development of the village and those sites where stones marked places of historic significance.

The water theme included ‘The Gift’ (a water distribution point and the site of the village well dressing), the ice house, clapper bridge, fishing dams, pump house mills and Hardy’s Mine.

The second theme, Lost and Found, combined sites such as Arbor Low, Bateman’s Tomb and the Gipsy Stone. It was these stones that the children visited later that spring.

Later in the year David Fine returned to the community, working with the village well dressing team to meet and talk informally over a period of time. His observations, on well dressing, the people and its customs, were recorded and he hopes to return with a series of poems. Meanwhile David produced some lines specifically for one of the Sites of Meaning stones.




 


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