By Bernie Bell

A stone

With a hand-print

An in-advertent handprint.

There are handprints, placed,

On stones, on walls

In Ochre

And Carbon.

And the Swandro Stone

Has a carbon hand-print

Placed, yet not placed.

Through the hand-prints

We connect.

https://www.swandro.co.uk/dig-diary/dig-diary-monday-23rd-july-our-anvil-still-has-the-pictish-smith-s-hand-prints

Totem Pole Hands B Bell

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