The Touchstone - Rundlestone - Dartmoor, Devon
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N 50° 33.526 W 004° 00.494
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A poem by John Powls etched into this modern day menhir, placed to mark the millennium.
Waymark Code: WMY5NX
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/26/2018
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A poem by John Powls etched into this modern day menhir, placed to mark the millennium.
"This menhir is probably the first one to be erected on Dartmoor since the Bronze Age. To mark the millennium, John Powls decided it would be a fitting monument to celebrate the new century with and put his idea to the National Park. At the time John Powls was the ‘poet in residence’ with the national park and so he wrote a poem to be inscribed on the stone. The stone was erected on Rundlestone Crest during the summer solstice in 1999. There was then a dedication ceremony held during the winter solstice in December 1999. The stone for the menhir came from the old prison quarry where Powls was the one-time governor and the poem was carved on it by Kevin Andrews of Polzeath in Cornwall. The touchstone stands at a proud 2 metres from the ground."
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The stone reads:
THE
TOUCHSTONE
Millennium
menhir
Inspiring
This stone touching
Open moor and sky
Granite land mark
Raised to stand
For all times
As one time;
Now, then and ever
In love and beauty
Our story is a book
Always open
At the centre
Half of experiences
Half of
Un-named hopes.
John Powls
poet
AD 2000
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Rundlestone - Dartmoor, Devon
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