Small black outline elephant tattoo on the upper back near the shoulder blade, photographed from behind with hair tied in a ponytail.

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Small elephant tattoo on upper back

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A photograph taken from behind shows a small elephant tattoo on the upper back, close to the shoulder blade. The elephant is drawn in a single thin black outline with simple detail and no shading. The image is warm in tone, with the subject's long hair filling much of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody who visits Carrow Keep wants to hear about the elephant, but I tell them anyway, because I was the one who walked her back across the bailey. Her name was Dot. She came up the Wye valley in the summer of 1961 with a travelling fair that had run out of money for the lorry, so the whole show went on foot from Hereford in the rain, and Dot went at the front with a rope round her neck and a boy on her head.

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The keep had been roofless since Cromwell's men took the lead, and the curtain wall on the river side had slumped into the water in one long grey fall. Dot liked standing on what was left of it. She would stand with the wind coming off the river and look down at the sheep as if she were working out what they cost. Mr Pryce, who owned the fair and owed money to everyone in Monmouth, said she was the only thing he had that nobody would buy, because nobody could afford to feed her.

In October the fair packed up and drove off towards Bristol. Mr Pryce waved from the cab and did not get out. Dot didn't follow the lorry. She went up the hill to the chapel, folded herself down among the nettles, and stayed there with the rooks, eating the windfall apples from the old orchard. My father, who kept the castle grounds for the council, brought her hay in a wheelbarrow every morning until the frost came, and I carried the bucket.

I drew her once on the back of a ticket stub, one unbroken line for the trunk and the curled trunk and the round back, the way she looked from a distance. I still have it. The wall is still there, and so is the chapel, though the nettles have gone. Whenever I climb to the top of the curtain wall I half expect to see her standing there, weighing up the sheep.