StoneGloves wrote:
Well, you've been keeping that one quiet. I'd forgotten about it and it was shown on the poorly drawn sketch map that the surveyors carried, or should have carried. They were close to the standing stones there - 60m. - but must have run out of time, which is a shame. That's like buying a ticket for a concert, getting to the check-in and then turning round and going home.
I posted the ERA details yesterday one of the stones ,like some of the non rock art examples I have posted , was similar to those you posted in the misaten belief that they are man made . There was clearly another stone marked on the map you couldn't find it on the web site so I pointed out where it was by providing the url . It takes a particualrly warped type of thinking to suggest that I was "keeping that one quiet " So one of my stones was recorded as Rock Art, after all. Why didn't you tell me this before?
I notice that you also don't comment on my observation that the stones at Tarnhouse Rigg and Tortie weren't recorded. So do you still think that it was an exhaustive and well conducted survey in SW Northumberland?
I also have noticed the commentary on one of the stones in Slaggyford, that was made by Mr Beckensall. His conclusions on the stone's original design seem, at best, fanciful and, at worst, totally misleading. Does nobody rein him in or is he just allowed to invent this stuff? I think we should be told ...
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Why should these other stones have been recorded ? I have no idea , if they are anything like your other "finds " then they are neither standing stones nor rock art . As someone with no experince of rock and particualrly small cups which you enquired about and were shown some good exmples of followed by other examples of non rock art small cups both here and on the ERA do you still believe the pics you provided of "cup marks " are man made ?
