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LivingRocks Oct 15, 2007 22:18:52
Replying to treehugger-uk

After reading this I made a visit to Pikestones to check if there was any further damage, there is even more pummeling of the spiral, the top of which is now almost obliterated, done with a a stone which is currently thrown inside the chamber, the damage so far is to the top of the spiral but it wouldn’t surprise me if the bottom part is next.

The spiral dates to late October/ Early November 1993, I was up there in October there was no spiral, I went back in November with a camera, the spiral had appeared.

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Oct 16, 2007 10:05:30
Replying to LivingRocks

That's interesting to see your photos, LivingRocks, thanks for that.

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the whole thing. I mean obviously it was Very Naughty to carve a spiral on a Scheduled Monument, and I don't condone that at all. But once it's there.. well at least it wasn't "Bob woz ere" or (that classic bit of graffiti) a cock 'n' balls. It's quite a nice spiral, it looks like a fern unfolding or something. So smashing it with a rock, it could be said, actually makes it look worse. And is certainly damage to the 'monument' in itself. Whereas if it were left, it'd fill with dirt and lichen and moss and merge into the background a bit. So I do feel that whoever's trying to remove it has kind of got their wires crossed a bit.

ah I don't know. it seems a difficult one to me.