Black script lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates on the side of the ribs, partly visible beneath a black top and white shirt.

Latitude and longitude coordinates on ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A single line of black script coordinates in latitude and longitude format sits across the side of the ribcage. The linework is thin and even, with solid black ink and no shading. The text is centred in the frame against warm skin, with a black top and a white and yellow shirt around it.

Lettering Ribs Coordinates Number

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The theodolite had been dropped twice on the climb, and Mr Cordery swore it had never sat true since, so when the brass cap finally settled on the hilltop at half past four nobody trusted a figure until Owen had checked it against the church clock in the valley. Thirty-four degrees, thirty-one minutes, forty-two seconds north. Eighty-seven west, with the last digit lost to the wind that had been trying all afternoon to pull up the pegs.

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Ruth carried the chain because she was the only one who would not complain about the brambles. The Hadley men had followed them up with their arms folded, saying the pit would poison the common and the water would go to the sheep first. Her father did not argue. He cut the stone himself, a grey block from the old wall, and scratched the figures into its face with a masonry nail and a patience she had never seen him spend on anything living.

They set it at the edge of the spoil line before the light went. Two summers later the shaft was sunk a quarter mile east, because the men in London had moved the boundary on paper, and the stone stood alone in a field of foxgloves that nobody had thought worth fencing. Ruth walked up by herself one August with her notebook and found it tipped on its side, half sunk in the turf.

She knelt and brushed the moss away with her sleeve. The numbers were still sharp, cut deep enough that weather could not argue with them. Anyone who wanted to find where the land had once been measured for something else need only kneel where she was kneeling and read them out loud.