Slaggyford Stones forum 1 room
Image by StoneGloves
close
more_vert

StoneGloves wrote:
So they've nicked one of my stones. This is the second time it's happened - the other one being at Thornhope. So you're a part of that, are you? What a trick!
Marked rocks do not belong to anyone , they are ours .
The Thornhope stone is yet another example of non rock art .

What am I a part of and what is the trick ?

Why won't you answer the oft repeated question .?
"As someone with no experience 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 ? "

"What am I a part of ?" A little local conspiracy.

I'll not answer your question because it is ungrammatical and mispelt and, what is known in Perry Mason terms, as 'leading'.

You've cheered me up now. The story has just taken a little twist. So when I phoned up the coordinator of the rock art survey, who was employed by the county council, about the first ten stones in the Knar valley, that I'd drawn on a map and sent to her, and she said 'they only found one and it was their opinion that they were natural cupmarks', she was being less than truthful? And that they'd actually found two stones off my plan, marked the first one down as 'natural cupmarks' and the second one down as 'portable rock art (new find)'. I still have the original sketch for the little maps, luckily.

Well, I never! The surveyors couldn't see the standing stones, from that gateway, as they are hidden in a dip higher up the hill. (Not far up the hill - fifty metres perhaps). So they were really close to the cluster of stones, but never actually got there, choosing instead to record a grotty eroded stone and then to disappear. And you're supporting that ?