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Hob May 14, 2006 22:43:40
Replying to StoneLifter

Hiya Stonelifter,

>The portable carved stone is part of this row rather than the stone row being part of the Rock Art.
Aye, that's how it seems, though the age of the row seems to be open to interpretation.

>There are other carved stones nearby as well. Just one of these is recorded
If you're meaning the Blackstone, and the teardrop shaped dints, I reckon they're sub-threshold. But the indisputable presence of an acknowledged portable CnR would make me think that there must have been cairns in the area, back in The Prehistoric. Either that or some ancient wanderer got sick of lugging his/her portable all the way from Sewingshields to Cross Fell, and dumped it on his/her way to the gold ear-ring shop at Kirkhaugh.

S StoneLifter
StoneLifter May 16, 2006 06:06:28
Replying to Hob

If you haven't been there - and seen the landscape - then your opinions are entirely speculation. As the piece of carved stone is portable I'm going to suggest to the farmer that he moves it to his front garden, where it is more safe from pilfering. There are many stones all about his railway field, and they need collating, somehow. There is a superimposition of features and a catalogue of recording errors.

Let me know when you've found (at least) the entrance to the Bold Venture Mine ( http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8262 ). If you or Fitz have sufficient bandwidth I've an 8Mb image that needs 'colouring in'.