I love everything about this: that it happened in this relative backwater, yet was witnessed by several people (including a ploughman close enough to be sprayed with impact debris); that the landowner, a playwright and newspaperman, commissioned local craftsmen to raise this eccentric monument; that the spot is still marked on an Ordnance Survey map, but obscurely, so you have to know what to look for; and that the current landowner is happy for people to visit.