Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Sports, Hobbies & Interests => Topic started by: Rhiannon on January 22, 2017, 06:15:00 PM
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This is me.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3G8N1xzn75l7YZM8gNzZp94/29-things-that-only-people-who-collect-pebbles-will-understand
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And me :)
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I don't do the polishing thing. But I *love* getting them home and washing them. I have little beach pebbles around a candlestick and hag stones in a bowl on the dresser. I've a sea-worn piece of grey and white flint next to my bed and a gorgeous piece of quartz flecked with silica from a river on the IoM. And a big round white pebble the size of my palm that's also flecked with silica but I don't know what the main stone is. That's a beach find too.
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No, I don't do anything to them as such, other than basic cleaning. I have a rather lovely nugget of rose quartz on my bedside drawers at the moment. Unfortunately, I live not too many miles from the geographical centre of England where the sea is as far one way as t'other, so sadly it's difficult for me to go collecting on the beach :(
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I'm not near the coast either, but I find plenty of interesting stones in the fields around my home, including flint and quartz.
A big bowl of pebbles next to my reading lamp is a great aid to meditation and mindfulness.
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I used to rummage around the spoil heaps of old Devon and Cornwall tin and copper mines, hoping to strike it rich by finding semi precious gem stones and polishing them.
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My wife and I used to go field walking with an archaeological group. The field was divided into 10 metre wide sections and each of us zig zagged through each section. Anything of interest we uncovered, we would mark with a flagged stick, and other people with a GPS would examine, and, if of interest, they would locate its precise position and take notes before lifting it from the ground. There were plenty of finds, mainly old pipe stems, and bowls, but also shards of Roman pottery, or even Anglo saxon pottery. I was lucky enough to find a Neolithic flint core stone once(a stone used to produce flakes of flint by Neolithic settlers), and, someone else found a perfectly formed flint arrowhead, which we all gathered around to see, before it was collected from its original spot. Some of these 'finds' are on display at a museum in Scunthorpe. We loved doing this, especially on a sunny warm day, because you didn't know what exactly you were going to find. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Quite interested in geology so my family are used to me picking up interesting stones and pebbles :)