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moss M
moss Sep 8, 2005 16:22:34
Replying to Crowfeeder

"hardly a surface where someone hasn't just scratched their names in with a piece of slate, barely cutting the rock but scratching away moss, dirt, etc. This is all around the walls"

It does'nt sound like a place of peace and tranquillity, people busily scratching their names on all the surfaces.

There is (according to another site!) a labryinth cut on a stone by the mill at Rocky valley, in fact two carvings, but they look a little suspect - very well defined...

C Crowfeeder
Crowfeeder Sep 8, 2005 17:56:25
Replying to moss

These carvings are further down the valley, I havent bothered with them as despite a bronze plaque to say they are 'rilly rilly olde for honest' they are a little suspect.

Since last year the tiny shingle wash at the end of the valley into the sea, with its old smuggling history, has become quite a beach now.

It is a marvellous valley, a good twenty minute stroll to the glen.

P PeterH
PeterH Sep 8, 2005 22:15:32
Replying to moss

If by "another site" you mean the Portal - then yes the Rocky Valley carvings are shown and the text indicates that they are modern and almost certainly cut with a steel tool.