Right, its about time for a guess-what-this-is photo. I found this amazing metal sculpture not even 5 minutes walk from Liverpool Street station. Now taking a nice side on photo (see below) of the sculpture in my mind shows nothing of my creativity, but just reflects that of the original sculptor, so I was looking of an interesting way of showing the beauty of this. I love the curves and shapes used, the semi-spiral design makes it into everything and the blue gems are just wonderful. I also liked how the little bits of rust is starting to colour the legs and contrasting with the blue glass.So this photo is of the knight's knee and lower leg with the horse's harness in the back and a bit of the spear. Bet you didn't think of that when you first saw the photo :-)
This sculpture was commissioned to commemorate the Cnihtengild, which was apparently a group of 13 Knights from the 10th century. They were granted the piece of land on which the sculpture now stands. I'm not going to give exact directions of the piece of land since it doesn't fully make sense to me, and I know the London landmarks, except to say that piece of land extended "south to the Thames as far as a Horseman riding into the river at low tide can throw a lance". That just brings home how different things were. Oh and the knights had to each fight 3 duels to be given this land, one duel above ground, one under ground and one on sea.
Below is a small photo of what the statue in full looks like
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