Dear RG

I sincerely hope that what I have planned will not be considered NewAgeVandalism - although I have no knowledge of the type of damage at Avebury etc that you refer to...perhaps you could enlighten me.

Obviously I have written the event web site with the aim of attracting people. I shall try and explain my rationale.

The Bodmin Moor Survey suggested that the stone had been erected by a farmer for his cows to scratch on (granite scratching post are quite common in the area). And although I know that all of the smaller stones lying around were put there by a farmer clearing the field for ploughing during the war I was always looking/hoping for a different reason for the standing stone being there.

I was pleased when Hamish Miller came and dowsed the stone and although I am not quite sure of its power to heal I am convinced that it does mark a ley line and was placed there for a higher purpose - although I doubt if this would persuade the archaeologists to change their mind. As for ‘sacred’ – I’m not a religious man and not really sure what you mean.

I am holding the event in order to make the Labyrinth. I am not making the Labyrinth in order to attract people to the event. I my own mind I am convinced that the original purpose of the stone would have been celebratory and so I hope that by holding the event I am actually keeping its heritage alive.

Although the labyrinth will be large in diameter it will be quite narrowly etched into the ground and only really visible from the air. You could write this off as a cynical money grabbing insensitive farmer pillaging the landscape - but my aim is to try and reconnect people with the land and in some way recognise the importance of this stone.

Dominic