Sticky toffee pudding, my daughter's, mine was gooey cornflake tart. Yes we went out to lunch on Sunday at the Staff of Life. I photo'd this cross in the window, weird and slightly unnerving. It did make me wonder if it was a pilgrimage route, but it was a fairly strong statement for whatever reason.
Edit: some research found out the following there is a pilgrim route - Paulinus Pilgrim route, which takes in the short space between (3 miles) of Staff of Life and Todmorden, several clues. 1) Mount Cross and 2) Golden stones which seem to be under the Bridestones.
The pilgrims route seems to come down from Northumbria to York.
But the news this morning is about an Iron Age hoard called the Melsonby Hoard found in North Yorkshire near Richmond, here is the BBC link, though the link below will give you some videos. Plenty of decorative pony attire harnesses and four wheeled wagons along with the two wheeled chariots. Also a cauldron badly damaged. If you were more fanciful, you could see the cauldron as the Cauldron of Renewal. There is a plate on the Gundestrup Cauldron, showing a man being dipped into a cauldron, for what reason we can only guess.
Cauldrons, the great cooking pots, for feasting or family, or showing off the family gold/bronze as in this German burial, the Celtic Hochdorf burial which we visited in 2014.
The cross would make me feel very uncomfortable. I would sit with my back to it.
ReplyDeleteOne of our major private hospitals had catholic origins but most doctors there now are Jewish. Lower staff are of Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern and African heritage. But still, lie in hospital bed there will have you looking at a very ugly crosses on the walls
Well that area through the valley was part of the Paulinus pilgrimage so probably the restaurant was angling for pilgrims that come through. (Off the top of my head there)
ReplyDeleteHow can "The Daily Mail" suggest that the hoard is worth £254,000 when it is in fact historically and archaeologically priceless? Why should monetary value come into it at all? By the way, have you always had a sophisticated palette? What could be more exotic than "gooey cornflake tart"?
ReplyDeleteWell there are problems with metal detectorists, though the man here declared the find. Portable Antiquity Scheme is the body you are supposed to get in touch with and they probably priced it. There has always been enormous problems with found archaeological treasure and the metal detectorist selling on the market. The pudding was delicious, though I rarely eat pudding, which might be a relief for Yorkshire Puddings!
ReplyDeleteI thought that first photo was a juicy steak. I've never had a sticky pudding or a gooey cornflake tart either.
ReplyDeleteI'm always amazed that things are still being discovered there after years and years and years and years of searching.
Well as a country Ellen we got invaded again and again. There are many layers under the soil. The cornflake tart was delicious, they used golden syrup to make the cornflakes a sticky mess.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that you'll get a chance to go to the York museum to see the hoard on display? I love things like this!
ReplyDeleteI don't think it matters what it may be worth compared to how it sets the imagination going.
ReplyDeletestaff of life near tod? Been a couple of times - really liked it - someone had told me it were shut down, but i guess not? Perhaps i'll have to have another venture out if they can keep the tod road open between hebden and tod for long enough grrrrr
ReplyDeletewhat an amazing find by the archeologists. I wonder how much is still hidden beneath our feet.
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