What's this?

This post is because I asked for prompts for Get Your Words Out Yahtzee challenge. (I've asked for a re-roll as I got a repeat of a picture prompt I used last time). And I completely misunderstood the assignment on one of them.

Oddly I'd just had nice discussion with smallhobbit about making guesses as to what small images actually are showing, and I had similar during the Snowflake Challenge (or maybe a lands-of-magic entry?) in which I described something in a photo as a fountain/bird bath which was actually a memorial feature.

Is it a writer thing, to see something without context and make an (un)educated guess about what it is? To start filling in the blanks? Or am I just not paying enough attention ;)
Do you ever have moments that like?

So, one of the prompts I'm keeping is this


What do you think it is?

Under the cut is my first guess.
In the first comment is what google lens insists it is.
I suppose in writing, what we see is what we write.

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