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For example... you said that you thought the one on Fendrith Hill to be recent, built by walkers. So presumably you'd just kick it over. Yet its really very far away from a footpath or from common land, so can't be built by walkers. And its really very close to the cup-marks. There's no way I'd want to see it destroyed.

I said curricks were a can of worms, didn't I?!

And with the greatest respect, can I ask what this is all about?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/18455

Hmm - watch out. Mars is coming to an opposition with Pluto tomorrow - Gemini to Sagittarius. There'll be a lot of 'dust kicked up'. Lets hope it's creative dust.

If I had been learning the citara for fifteen years and playing for five, you would expect that I could hold a tune. Building in stone is more or less the same. Except I've been doing it for thirty. There are two persons, in the UK, active in building curricks. I'm one of them and Andy Goldsworthy is the other. I'd rather you criticised his work than mine as I am the one that is continuing the tradition of the original builders, while he's making drystone ice cream cones, or something.

We've had extensive discussions about curricks off-forum that I don't want to repeat. I'd far rather you were trying to find the lost curricks belonging to the Holymire circle which I expect to be on the fell tops between Alston and Nenthead. If you did that you would learn a vast amount about their purpose and age and about the makers of the stone monuments.