My stance on these latest posts is to let sleeping dogs lie. All other issues aside I recall it was a memorable day. I had no intention of pin pointing any particular group of people or individuals. Jonnyj (whoever she/he is) has already said 'why' they examined the cap stone and absolutely no damage was done - we are talking about massive sarsen stones after all.

You develop a nose Nigel, like a fine wine connoisseur, and act on it. ;)

It's also about association, in this area it's one of the less visited sites, unlike Avebury itself, Silbury, WKLB, WKA etc etc which have been scrutinised inch by inch, and as already said, 700 metres distant you have the only other of possible rock art in the area.

Personally, before reading an online article a month or so ago, i'd never seen those markings so it was of interest to me, i've since climbed the monument myself and taken further photographs as i strongly believe any markings no matter how debatable should be recorded for posterity and further scrutiny, if that means a few well informed people climbing a monument for all the right reasons i fully support them, they've come up with the goods in the past.