School Stone

Weight

58kg / 128lbs

Location

View on what3words - smokers.youths.mission

Original Challenge
Stones to chest & shoulder

Name Origin
The stone was taken from the nearby 19th-century school and now rests close to its original location.

Stone Placment
Discovered and placed by @tea_and_stones. The stone rests on private land, please conatct @tea_and_stones to organise a lift.

History

The stone is situated close to the site of an old village school near the alpaca farm in the New Forest, Hampshire. The school was destroyed by fire in the 19th century. Local accounts tell of the boys attending the school being sent to fetch buckets of water from the surrounding land in an attempt to extinguish the blaze