A Place of Digging - Dilhorne, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 52° 59.382 W 002° 02.618
30U E 564196 N 5871552
The sculpture 'A place of Digging' is located in the Recreation Ground play area in the village of Dilhorne.
Waymark Code: WMV3Q9
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/18/2017
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The carving has been created by award winning artist, sculptor and craftsman Anthony Hammond, from a beech tree that had been struck by lightning. Dilhorne Recreation Centre and Community Trust management committee funded the £2,500 art project. (
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A report in the Sentinel Newspaper.
130-year-old tree spared the axe with eye-catching sculpture.
'Sculptor Anthony, aged 39, who grew up in Cresswell, said: ""The residents were keen to do something that would reference the mining history of the village so the sculpture has a miners wheel at the top as well as the words 'a place of digging'.
"It has two foxes on the bottom to symbolise Foxfield Railway. I am really pleased with the finished piece.' Source - Sentinel Newspaper: (
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The name Dilhorne has its origins in the old English name of "Delverne" which means "place of digging" and is because Dilhorne sits on the Cheadle Coalfield and several seams of very high quality coal outcrop in the area. The name of Delverne, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggests that the area was known for coal mining nearly a thousand years ago. (
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The tree sculpture was unveiled by Levison Wood -
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