There is a cupmarked boulder in Denmark (but can't find a link) that has a line of deep cups, about a dozen, that would fit the description. Also in the area where I am active there is the placename Geltsdale and one of the three Tyne tributaries I can see from my campsite is the river Gelt. We assume that there was ancient goldpanning going on at some time or other. The Kirkhaugh gold trug has never been chemically tested - it is only assumed to be Irish (or Welsh) gold - it could be local. (Rambling again).

Perhaps there's someone going to see the (belated) Mayday sunrise at one of the Smithills stone rows. It should - it did this morning - come up behind a hill named Bull Hill, near Darwen. That's the way, perhaps, to suss these questions out. But which parts of the human body are depicted on prehistoric carved stones ? I know there is a foot on one of the Calderstones, and my Blackstone has a **** on the back, but what else is there known ?