A bowl of coins
Published 29 January 2012
All January and February, A Sunday Picture is going Southern Upland Way crazy as we celebrate the publication of extracts from my latest e-book, The Secret Coast to Coast.
And what better way to celebrate than a picture of a bowl of coins?
Now I know what are you thinking. What have some rusty coins in a mosaic bowl got to do with walking?
It’s all part of the Waymerks project. Many years ago a series of 13 sculptures, called kists, were installed on the Southern Upland Way; each one containing a stash of coins, called waymerks. Get all 13 and you had yourself a hoard.
The original waymerks eventually ran out and the kists began to gradually decay (as was, apparently, always the plan) but recently a second hoard was created. The New Hoard, as they’re called, were designed by school children and feature things related to the area.
This is one of the kists I passed on my travels; a kind of mosaic pottery bowl which had a “stone” lid on it, which I think was made out of fibreglass.
The coin itself had a picture of Andy Goldsworthy’s striding arches on it, which was another nearby art installation. Indeed there’s a lot of art on the Southern Upland Way. Even one of the bothies I stayed in had an art exhibition on. If you like walking and you like art, the Southern Upland Way is certainly the walk for you!
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