The carving is about 12cm high. The branch was a young offshoot about 8 cm in diameter.
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OK, so who carved this at Oxwich bay?
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woodspirits
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On hols at the Gower, found this freshly carved.
Chances are someone on here is the culprit?
M
You made a sweeping statement that someone on the forum would do that, with no context, . When questioned, you then decided it was a funny thing to do and were not blaming anyone. Was it someone from here or not?
woodspirits
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Wish I hadn't posted the darn thing now... It made me smile and felt a connection given i've carved a few myself.
woodspirits
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
don't beat yourself up about it, an off the cuff flippant remark can often fall foul on this media.
I saw saw that on a walk not to long ago, lots of coins hammered into old tree stumps. Any ideas what it came from?
Andy
Sorry if I took it the wrong way, but I felt pretty strongly about it, on reflection perhaps too strongly, I've carved a few too. You were quite right to post though.
Do you not hammer copper coins into tree stumps to kill them and allow them to rot faster? i.e. a intentional act to return the biomass to the woodland
Been all sorts of theories about it and coins play a big part in a lot of death rights. Think of coins placed on eyes and coins for Charon.
Different metals mean things to different folk. Shiny new pins dropped into the well, wrought iron against evil, silver as a purifier. Picts and their shiny metal mirrors.
Must say though that I don't know why they pop the coins into the trees.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
Different metals mean things to different folk. Shiny new pins dropped into the well, wrought iron against evil, silver as a purifier. Picts and their shiny metal mirrors.
Must say though that I don't know why they pop the coins into the trees.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
Sometimes it's a wish for something, sometimes it's a 'take this away from me' wish too though…..so folks don't take coins from the tree because they don't what they're taking away with them too.
M
M
There is an old tradition/belief of ''wishing trees'', people shove coins in trees as an offering in the belief a wish or good fortune will be granted. Its similar to the well known tradition of wishing wells where you throw a coin into the well and make a wish. Some of these ''coin trees'' have hundreds of coins shoved in their trunk, there are a few trees at Portmerion in Wales which have hundreds of coins driven into them and other specimens in Scotland too. Personally I dont believe in superstition and live by deeds not wishes, each to their own though. Certain nationalities have traditions, for example not far me from is a river bridge where asians throw coins into the river, the river bed is chock a block with coins, I dont why they do it I presume its for a similar reason in bringing good luck. Regarding the tree carving, I grew up many years ago in a rough area of the black country where it was common for kids to carve things into trees, usually something like so-and-so love each other though.
Google 'coin trees' or 'wishing trees' and you will find some specimens full of hundreds of coins. Those at Portmeirion are quite well known, there are others throughout the uk.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/great-britain-wishing-trees
Google 'coin trees' or 'wishing trees' and you will find some specimens full of hundreds of coins. Those at Portmeirion are quite well known, there are others throughout the uk.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/great-britain-wishing-trees
I did wonder if it was something like that - there were numerous trees with a good number of coins in them. And many of those looked like they had been there a good while.
All the best
Andy
All the best
Andy
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