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These granite boulders were found in a pile during scrub clearance of an abandoned garden on the south coast of Cornwall. They would have been collected from the cove below, as each is beautifully rounded and smooth - similar to those one steps on and over when walking along the shore. I thought it was the action of the waves that shaped the stones, until I discovered similar ones lodged in the sea cliffs over-hanging the cove, indicating that the glacier shaped them. The ones used in the garden must have fallen at one point onto the shoreline and been tumbled smooth for millennia.

The boulders have been inserted into a fissure in bedrock cleaved apart during a period of quarrying, long before this place was a garden. The bedrock is along the walk to the sea, so the chain of boulders provides a point of reference for my clients on their daily walks through the garden to the cove.