Both Stockport and Rome have sandsone rock brows

A beautiful red sandstone rock brow exposed in Royal Oak Yard parallel with Little Underbank, Stockport. Traces of chimney flues and floor joist post holes are all evidence of changing use

The RUPE TARPEIA  (Tarpeian Rock) of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. near the Vicus Iugarius and ancient road that led from the Forum to the Forum Boarium and the Portus Tiberinus a long lost harbour on the River Tiber. The legends associated with this exposed sandstone spur make the location totemic and a place of pilgrimage. A she-wolf was caged here at times to enact the foundation myth of Rome and to attract tourists. A permanent tourist placard explains this. Rocks can be interesting even when they look like nothing at all