Hi! I'm not sure how long this login will last so this message will necessarily be terse. I have the interesting task of recording one half of an interview - industrial archaeology - and then sending it to auntie for the presenter to complete. It'll not be an entire first but it'll be a first for that show - if it happens. The best mike and plenty of duvets - but that's not what this post is about ...

I rang my local EH heritage arch. this morning, after a couple of weeks of just reaching his voicemail box, and he was actually enthusiastic and interested about my finds in and around Knarsdale and Kirkhaugh in SW Northumberland. He put me in touch with a heritage officer for the AONB and he was definitely interested in what I've found. I know it'll probably turn into a mirage but there does seem to be some progress at last. The EH man was interested in my account of the long mortuary enclosure and the AONB man was interested in my account of the long cairn 'behind Hanging Shaw'. As I've been promoting this stuff for more than five years, without any success, it does seem like the process may have begun at last.

Julian mentioned somewhere that it takes twenty five years for new sites to filter through - I simply don't have that much time. I had hoped that he would have come out and seen some of the stuff - which is, in some cases, pristine - and incorporated the new knowledge into his body of work but - never mind ...

I think the idea of Stonehenge as a healing centre is great, incidentally. I went there to get healed and am not sure whether the treatment was effective or whether it was a placebo! It's certainly helped me spot ancient stuff in the landscape ...