Yes, the English Heritage man wanted the map reference - which is NY 7010 4878 . It's perhaps six metres wide and about fifteen or twenty long - then I suppose there might have been another five to ten metres lengthening it. I don't mind what it's called as long as it becomes looked after. There are similar things in France I've seen pictures of and one that sticks in my mind that was filled with smaller stones. My measurements of its declination are lost in ancient notebooks - I fairly recently had a bonfire of them on the Quayside - but it's certainly to the northnortheast. As I said it has a distinct doorway, marked by taller upright stones, and if you sight from one side of the doorway over a cornerstone and then up the hillside then a small four-poster stone circle is indicated. (Nobody's been to that one either despite it being on both (a) the roadside and (b) the SMR. It is the outlier to whatever the stone monument is. The three known burial cairns - I suspect there will be more about - overlook the Kirkhaugh site. The bed of the burn which, together with the Tyne, encloses the stones has the peculiarity of being limestone sills and, at the height of summer, disappears upstream of the site only to re-emerge downstream. This must have seemed quite miraculous in ancient times and is surely one of the reason that spot was selected. There is a huge collection of stones in the upper field and these must have comprised other monuments and perhaps another circle. I haven't found any Rock Art at the site but plenty of evidence of chiseled edges of stones.
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Yes, the English Heritage man wanted the map reference - which is NY 7010 4878 . It's perhaps six metres wide and about fifteen or twenty long - then I suppose there might have been another five to ten metres lengthening it. I don't mind what it's called as long as it becomes looked after. There are similar things in France I've seen pictures of and one that sticks in my mind that was filled with smaller stones. My measurements of its declination are lost in ancient notebooks - I fairly recently had a bonfire of them on the Quayside - but it's certainly to the northnortheast. As I said it has a distinct doorway, marked by taller upright stones, and if you sight from one side of the doorway over a cornerstone and then up the hillside then a small four-poster stone circle is indicated. (Nobody's been to that one either despite it being on both (a) the roadside and (b) the SMR. It is the outlier to whatever the stone monument is. The three known burial cairns - I suspect there will be more about - overlook the Kirkhaugh site. The bed of the burn which, together with the Tyne, encloses the stones has the peculiarity of being limestone sills and, at the height of summer, disappears upstream of the site only to re-emerge downstream. This must have seemed quite miraculous in ancient times and is surely one of the reason that spot was selected. There is a huge collection of stones in the upper field and these must have comprised other monuments and perhaps another circle. I haven't found any Rock Art at the site but plenty of evidence of chiseled edges of stones.
It seems too small to be an L.M.E . and the portal(s) are usually at the side rather than terminals . Maybe long cairn would be more appropriate .Upland areas on limestone may have been chosen for the their sweet grasses too .