My last podcast is now posted ( http://www.davidaspinall.co.uk/disperse/line!!cast2.mp3 ) but it's 9.85Mb. If you put 'info' and 'at' in front of that web address you can email me. The postal address is there too. I don't mind meeting up at Rivington Pike on Friday - and want to photograph the crowds.
All sites start out as being disputed, but these ones are very heavily disputed. Pioneers need support not ridicule. Everyone is fallible and it's not impossible that there are spurious items mixed in with the genuine ones, but even if it were half of them then north Bolton would still be internationally important. It also explains where the natives' extraordinary creativity comes from (perhaps).
Toothells is a monster - it's massive - particularly when one finds the closed-off entrance. The scraps of shattered Rock Art are interesting (and there'll be much more nearby).