Now, there is always a story, and someone will come up with a plausible tale about the statue of the stag in a field in the Lake District.
I suppose once it adorned the entrance of some stately home, which may or may not have had stags roaming across its parkland.
Its owners, no doubt thought that it conferred an ancient dignity on what may well have been a relatively new property.
And there may well be the expert who will weigh in with a detailed description of this one and a more general account of this sort of stone adornment.
Well, we shall see.
In the meantime I wonder what will happen to it.
It might end up as a prop for a television company or more likely it will once again front a house, bought by an owner desperate to impress.
But the way these things work, the house will be a more modest affair and our stag is more likely to sit at the bottom of the garden, close to the small fish pond and just to the left of the stone sun dial.
Location; the Lake District
Picture; stone stag waiting for a new home, 2018, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Its owners, no doubt thought that it conferred an ancient dignity on what may well have been a relatively new property.
And there may well be the expert who will weigh in with a detailed description of this one and a more general account of this sort of stone adornment.
Well, we shall see.
In the meantime I wonder what will happen to it.
It might end up as a prop for a television company or more likely it will once again front a house, bought by an owner desperate to impress.
But the way these things work, the house will be a more modest affair and our stag is more likely to sit at the bottom of the garden, close to the small fish pond and just to the left of the stone sun dial.
Location; the Lake District
Picture; stone stag waiting for a new home, 2018, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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