AH 1908

Holly appear in huge numbers all over the forest, you don't give their age much thought. Some are clearly old, all twisted and gnarled, most though are not that impressive; I'm not dissing Hollies or ought, you just tend to think of shrubs as short lived. Imagine my surprise finding 113 year old graffiti on a trunk you'd think only a couple or so decades old, amazing. You can see the letters and numbers AH 1908 are old by their style, they don't appear stretched through, beyond some on one side of the A and the number 1. What I found most interesting, beyond the age of the graffiti, was that the Holly appears not to have grown much at all in the intervening years.