Red Deer Wallow

Nigel Lloyd – Scale Green – 1983

Photograph from Grizedale Archive by Mike Oram

Alternative Titles: Stone Red Rut, Stone Red Wallow

Material: Stone

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Building

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: 1984 – 1994

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “Seeing the Red Deer wallows and knowing about the rutting season prompted me to make ‘Stone Red Wallow’. The piece is sited close to an old red wallow and close to existing wallows… I wanted to use materials in a way that would be in keeping with the natural environment, and its specific location. I also wanted to make something that was as unobtrusive as possible, thus its not very high although sited in a depression with high ground all around… It has been likened to other images in the forest such as remains of iron-ore smelting pits or ancient hut foundations.”

Photograph from ‘A Sense of Place’ 1984 by Mark Prior

Listed as Stone Red Rut on the 1984 Map. The circular dry stone wall contained in it a wood carving as seen above. Nigel sited this artwork 20 yards off the trail, on one side of the path at scale green, with his other artwork Half Moon Stakes on the opposite side of the path. “By using stone… the structure should remain for quite a long time, in much the same way as the deer wallows are used by generation after generation of deer.” It did last for quite a while listed on maps until 1994.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

For the Birds – 1983

The Fortress – 1983

Half Moon Stakes – 1983

Monument to Satterthwaite – 1983

 

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