Stone or what?

Probably not a monument to one of the estate workers mentioned in the previous post, not unless he had done time in the senior service as a boy, not impossible as Cubitt originally hailed from Swanage, from where I dare say the navy took plenty of its sailors.

But the point of interest was the material out of which the chain and anchor had been made. The whole thing had weathered down to a uniform, matt gray but it seemed unlikely, if not altogether impossible, that the chain and anchor were made of stone. These days one would assume some kind of cunning resin-bound composite, but I don't suppose that such was available to Cubitt.

Whatever it was, not enough to avoid the need for what appears to be an iron prop at the side. Presumably the whole thing snapped off at the base at some point.

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