Here is picture from within Sheffield's boundaries...pic (http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Nommedenet/sheffieldforum/IMG_0489.jpg)

Do you know where this is?

What is it called?

What is it's significance with Sheffield?

Nomme

Looks like Wyming Brook to me at Lodge Moor.

Gis a clue

Originally posted by mikey
Looks like Wyoming??? Brook to me at Lodge Moor.

Gis a clue
Wyoming lol

Its a boundary stone?

not sure where

Originally posted by mikey
Looks like Wyoming??? Brook to me at Lodge Moor.

Gis a clue

Nope. It's not Wyming Brook. Though Wyming Brook is not too far away from this location.

I'll see if anyone knows before I start posting clues.

Nomme

porter brook?? rivelin??

no I give up

Originally posted by Jayne
rivelin??

no I give up

Right ball park. I bet you've run past it.

Nomme

Is it something to do with Robin Hood?

Originally posted by bonny
Is it something to do with Robin Hood?

Nope.

Nomme

It's the "knowledge stone" on the upper Don, where all Sheffield babies are taken at 6 weeks old. With one drop of water from the stream placed on their head they then receive the knowledge and wisdom that makes Sheffield people the great human beings that they are.




Or maybe not.





That's my best guess

Originally posted by nomme
Right ball park. I bet you've run past it.

Nomme

I was down there only last night - how about the peak district boundary at the end of the rivelin valley.

Or a rock people used to make forks over! - there's lots of those down rivelin

Originally posted by pitsmoorlad
It's the "knowledge stone" on the upper Don, where all Sheffield babies are taken at 6 weeks old. With one drop of water from the stream placed on their head they then receive the knowledge and wisdom that makes Sheffield people the great human beings that they are.


Did you make that up?

I've never heard of that before.

Nomme

Originally posted by Jayne
I was down there only last night - how about the peak district boundary at the end of the rivelin valley.


The stream in the picture runs into the Rivelin valley.

Nomme

Is it part of a stone circle?

Is it the stream that runs down from by the hallamshire golf course into rivelin?

Is it a chalybeate spring?

Originally posted by Jayne
Is it the stream that runs down from by the hallamshire golf course into rivelin?

Bingo. Yes, it is Black Brook.

Nomme

Originally posted by bonny
Is it part of a stone circle?

Not as far as I know.

Nomme

can we have a new picture to guess at now please??

Originally posted by bonny
Is it a chalybeate spring?

I don't know sorry.

Nomme

"Did you make that up?

I've never heard of that before."



Made it up? MADE IT UP ????


Just so there aren't queues at the wrong time, the ceremony can only take place during a full moon. This is for two reasons:

1, the lunar rays imbibe the recipient with brightness and independence, so the fuller the moon, the more rays.

2, If it's too dark people fall over and into the stream.

If anyone requires further info about this or other Sheffield Customs please let me know.

Originally posted by richynomates
can we have a new picture to guess at now please??

Nope - Only the location has been discovered.
I still want my other questions answered.

If you look carefully you maybe able to make out some writing on the rock. This probably doesn't help as it is not clear from the photo what it says.

Nomme

i didn't make out any writing, but i used it as one of those "magic eye" things, and saw a picture of a bottle of vodka...

yay I got a bit right. I have got wet feet crossing that out running before. Can't make out the writing though :(

hmmmm well bloody hel

come on, nomme put us out of our misery!!!

I'm bored this afternoon - ready for the weekend.

OK.

Well I came across this in a book called "Sheffield Curiosities". The rock is called Elliot Rock after the 'Corn Law Rhymer' Ebenezer Elliot. If you look carefully you find the single word 'Elliot' inscribed on this rock. There is a statue of Ebenezer Elliot in Western Park and again the only inscription on the statue is the single word 'Elliot'.

Have a look at this:
http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/elly.htm
From the page about his statue:
"The rock on which the Poet of the Poor is seated reflects a favourite rock in the Rivelin Valley where Elliott liked to perch, to study his natural surroundings & to write the odd verse."

So there you have it. It is a picture of Elliot rock - one of Sheffield's hidden treasures.

More info about Sheffield folk hero Ebenezer Elliot here:
http://www.tilthammer.com/bio/elliott.html
http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/elly.htm

Nomme

Originally posted by Jayne
come on, nomme put us out of our misery!!!

I'm bored this afternoon - ready for the weekend.

You think you're bored... i actually fired up Photoshop to see if I could detect the lettering! :(

can we have something like this every friday please??! i don't usually learn things on a friday!

Yes, I know the statue, I think I can virtually see it from here (actually I just checked and part of firth court is in the way)

where exactly is the rock and I'll look for it next time I run down there, though this weekend I'm planning a run along Curbar edge - should be nice in the sun.

It's nearly my birthday so I'm exciting - though maybe not as bored as Tony!

Originally posted by Jayne
where exactly is the rock and I'll look for it next time I run down there, though this weekend I'm planning a run along Curbar edge - should be nice in the sun.

It's pretty much where the path crosses the stream just behind the golf course.

Nomme

is it one of those ground force water features done by Charlie Dimmock!!

I thought it was somewhere fairy's could go to commit suicide.

I realise that it has been revealed, now, what and where this particular stone is..

I have just stumbled upon the thread and the picture, and my first thought was, that it was possibly one of the stepping stones across the Porter (?) as it runs behind the cafe, in Endcliffe Park.

I spent many a happy summers day in my childhood, playing around those stones .

(ps, I could not make out the writing, let alone decipher it!)

PT