Carvings everywhere are asuffering. Here we have lost so much definition in the carvings on RA and high crosses. I have slides of many of them taken 20 years ago and the deterioration since then is shocking. One thing I am currently working on is a 'Then and Now' thing showing this. Until the industrial revolution arrived in Ireland (the late nineteen eighties!) these monuments were in great condition. Now acid rain and polution is taking them away. If the Irish people will allow Xtian high crosses to be eaten away what hope is there for the pagan rockart?