Many people will have walked straight past Gilbert Ward's 'Celtic Ring', given its location; subtly drawn into a rock face on the road up to Bogle Crag. A Yorkshireman through and through, Ward said of the sculpture (which was originally known as 'Quarry Ring') in 'A Sense Of Place':

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"I have always been excited by the idea of working in and from nature. It follows that I was overjoyed when Northern Arts asked me to be involved in the Grizedale Scheme and decided to try and carve a drawing into the rather inferior slate there. The idea of a maze pattern seemed to be appropriate, as one invariably gets lost in the forest, and it has connections with the cup and ring marks at home. It also reads as a mandala, so that several correlated ideas exist at the same time and can be read and interpreted individually by the viewer. The drawing is let into the stone in line, and in line as broken surfaces, the light catches them in different ways and the symmetry of the pattern is broken when the rock surface rolls back, to give a feeling of being there and not being there. One hopes that the walkers in the forest will see the work without it being intrusive or strident and become interested in its meaning in that situation."

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Ward's thinly-veiled dig at the quality of Grizedale slate notwithstanding, he was keen to work with the stuff and initially proposed a method which would have required a hard hat at the very least, according to Bill Grant, who was quoted as saying in the same book:

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"Gilbert Ward horrified the foresters by wanting to create a rock sculpture involving the use of dynamite! This was toned down eventually and finished up as Celtic Ring, superimposed on a rock face."