Yes, it is truly a miracle. I have a slab of Rock Art from the same vein. I brought it home in a rucsac one autumn afternoon like this. The stone had been excavated from soft silt during a ditching operation at a stone monument site (there has been more rock art uncovered there since then). This slab is scarred from the maw of the JCB but had been protected for many years by the silt it was buried in. The archaeology community will not contemplate the cupmarks on it (they are really fresh) as the shapes are either unknown or unrecognised. My term is 'teardrop-shaped'. You will see the name of the Rock Art Proj. Manager (I think) of the unit that has published Stan's archive. I offered to lend the stone to the man for six weeks - the uni being twenty minutes walk away from here - "no".

Tutankhmen's gear looked pretty fresh when it came out of the tomb - doesn't mean it wasn't ancient. Please find me an Edwardian (ie a hundred year old) cairn, or the drawing of one, to compare with David's Cairns. I know there isn't one - I've been looking for five years now - there's nothing !

I call the Goldsworthy constipations 'A-cones'. (And that term is copyright to me also !)