Small black fine-line tattoo of two overlapping outlined triangles on the upper arm near the elbow, in a geometric style.

Two overlapping triangles on an upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows two outlined triangles of slightly different sizes, one overlapping the other, drawn in thin black linework. It is small and sits on the upper arm close to the elbow, with the arm shown against a plain white top and a pale background. The ink is solid black with no shading or colour, and the image is sharp and evenly lit.

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The surveyor's chain had lain in the church vestry since the war, coiled like a sleeping snake, and nobody in Thornby Fen wanted it touched. Mrs Hollis wanted it touched. She wanted the boundary between the rectory glebe and the Cole family's pasture settled before harvest, so she sent her grandson Ray down the lane with a theodolite borrowed from the school and a bag of wooden pegs.

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Ray found the old marks in an afternoon. Two triangles were scratched into the flat stone of the sluice gate, one cut by Abel Shaw in 1867 and the other laid over it by his brother Joseph, who had disputed his figures and walked the fields at dawn to prove him wrong. Both had sighted from the same two oaks and come out with land of different shapes, so each had carved his answer on the stone, one reaching into the other, and neither would give way.

Ray sat on the wet step with his pencil and tried to make the sums agree. They would not. Then the Cole boy came along the bank with a dog and a bucket of eels and asked what the fuss was. Ray showed him the stone. The boy shrugged and said his grandfather always called the two triangles one field with two owners, and the place where they overlapped was where the water rose every spring, and nobody owned that at all.

Ray took the pegs home unused. He told Mrs Hollis the boundary was wherever the water stood, which was no answer, and she laughed until she had to sit down. In October the sluice flooded and both brothers' marks went under together, and the fen did not mind who had owned what.

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