> Another function of TMA is to put up sites for others to visit and clarify...

Yes, but the Forum is a great place to start the process off. You can invite questions before making assertions. You have to admit that, most people visiting Orkney aren't going to rush to see the Burns of Myres so that they can 'visit and clarify'. There's a lot more to be seen in your part of the world. A Forum discussion works wonders though. There are a lot of people frequenting this site that who know a lot about prehistory. It seems obvious to me that the starting point for a newly 're-discovered' site is to ask 'em what they think?

Of course, the danger is that they might not think it's prehistoric.

> ...otherwise we become simply an adjunct of the National Monument Records...

Unlike the NMRs we document our visits in a non-academic manner. That's kind of the point isn't it? Like the original antiquarians we make what we can of them, but ultimately we're looking for some sort of truth (I hope). There's no point in some poor soul travelling up to Orkney (or west Wales) to gaze at a fence post or dowse for corresponding ley lines if it was erected in 1847! We're not here to delude ourselves.

I've been threatening to post the roundabout outside Morrison's as a round barrow. Maybe I should. It's round after all! That's the clincher I think. Also, there are lots of similarly constructed round barrows in other built up areas. Why have the archaeologists been so blind! I'll be there at the weekend smoking Skunk and spinning crystals.

[Humph]

Sorry to get carried away, but I strongly believe that we need to safeguard the integrity of this site. The freedom we have to post material comes with that price tag.

K x

And over on TMP the Greystane according to Thorgrim could be a "piece of dressed masonry from a church" !