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Everytime I've camped in the lakes I always make sure I spend a night at the campsite near to Castlerigg, then an early night and up with the dawn chorus to spend 2 hours or more alone at the circle with the morning sun and mist.

Whilst the "show" sites suffer in terms of numbers, many many more receive less than a visitor a week and suffer neglect and deliberate damage which goes unpunished as not enough people care for authorities to act.

Personally I think the more people care about visiting any prehistory the better as it raises the profile of the whole.

juamei wrote:
Personally I think the more people care about visiting any prehistory the better as it raises the profile of the whole.
It's not the people who care (such as the contributors to this forum) that bother us, it's the people who don't care and arrive on a tour or because the site is on some "must see" guide.

We were photographing the Balnuaran of Clava cairns once when three coachloads of tourists hauled up, they proceeded to use two of the cairn chambers as toilets. One cairn for men, and one cairn for women, there were queues in the passages. They even had their own entertainment, a nimble gent climbed one of the tallest circle stones and perfomed handstands on the top to the cheers and applause of his fellows.

We can really do without visitors like this.