Vikings like Land & Water

This installation is a tribute to the Viking past of Burton, though at first it looks like some abandoned word-carving and bits of stones. Strangely, that was partly the sculptor's ambition, as she wanted her work - called Land & Water - to look like a half buried Viking grave/boat.

The maker, Rosemary Terry, deliberately placed it on Andressey Island, the slice of land that sits in the middle of the River Trent at Burton.

It's a weird thought - because Burton is virtually in the middle of the country - but the Vikings managed, in 874, to SAIL all the way here from Scandinavia.
The river is navigable all the way from the North Sea to this point; and the Vikings only stopped here in the end because the river was no longer navigable going west.