Many dead and felled trunks along walking trails that accumulate coins from passerby.
Coin trees have been a tradition in Scotland, Wales, and England since at least the 1700s. They were a kind of wishing-well, with pagan roots; the story goes that a sick person could hammer a coin into a trunk and find themselves healed. If the coin were ever removed, the illness would return double.
Some of these trunks have coins from centuries ago driven deep into the wood. However, like many local traditions (padlocks on bridges, gum in alleyways) the prevalence of coin trees has been growing at a rapid rate in the last few decades. Pennies are pounded into stumps with stones, often by tourists and visitors to notable places. For instance, the village of Portmeirion– the setting of the 1967 television series The Prisoner– sports seven of these trees, which appeared almost overnight in the early 2000s.