Large stones engraved with ancient symbols make dramatic and powerful garden features, suitable for both small and large gardens. They can be any size but are often smaller free standing stones that can be moved without heavy machinery.
Sarsen stone holed stone with hand carved house name, North Yorkshire
Celtic triskele pattern engraved on small quarried granite stone, private garden, Kent
Hand carved glacial granite house name stone
Hand carved spiral design on Cornish granite boulder
Glacial granite seat stone with personalised hand carved engraving
Preseli Bluestone standing stone from Wales, hand carved with Celtic knot design
Preselli Bluestone with a handcarved design of the age-old spiral. If you look closely, you will see the English folkloric hero Herne the Hunter to the right of the standing stone.
Hand carved and painted Celtic dragon on a broad standing stone, Kent
Classic Cornish granite holed stone with a hand carved Shakespearean quote. In a public park in Old Basing, Hampshire
Two large standing stones with hand carved engraving, commissioned for the Gardeners World Show at the NEC, Birmingham
Hand carved runes with gold leaf on flat boulder of Yorkshire River Limestone
Detail of a hand carved double version of the ancient spiral design
Hand carved Pictish stag on a Cornish granite standing stone. In Kent.
Hand carved lettering on house name stone of Yorskhire glacial stone. For an old Yorkshire barn
Hand carved triple spiral on a large Cornish granite garden monolith
Cornish granite stone with a hand carved cup and ring mark. The design looks contemporary but it is based on a design widely used in prehistoric art. At Broughton Moor in Cumbria.
Continued...
We base many of our designs on ancient carvings found all over the British Isles. Designs are usually hand carved and sometimes also sympathetically painted with masonry paint to increase contrast.
Stones can also be engraved with words of your choice, for example house name stones.