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I've been 'trespassing' on and off now for some 60 years. Find the best means of access is tunnelling and backfilling as you go - that way your tracks are always covered but unfortunately so too is your means of a hasty retreat. However, if you do intend to trespass using the tunnelling method my advice is to either go it alone or with someone a lot thinner than yourself.

I had a really bad experience as a kid trying to make a rapid escape from an orchard with my tubby accomplice Gilbert Ramsbottom; our pockets were bulging with apples when Giles and his dog showed up. Gilbert got to our tunnel before me but his bulky pockets, coupled with his bulky frame, ensured that he got stuck half way through our means of escape. With a bit of help from me at 'rear (he weren't called Ramsbottom for nothing) he finally wriggled free but I was caught and given a harsh admonition of the physical kind.

Hasn't stopped me from trespassing though - no friggin' 'landowner' is going to tell me where I can or cannot go :-).

I always try to ask permission before entering private land, especially if it is obvious where one should ask permission.

I have never been refused when having asked.

Ironically, the only bother I have had online is from a place where permission was given freely on a sign to visit a location; but because I had taken, and posted a photo of the monument without seeking the permission of the landowner to photograph it, I received a rather tense e-mail. The sign adjacent parking for the monument never said anything about seeking permission to photograph the monument.

If I ever have any comeback on locations I have visited without successfully gaining permission first, then I will take action to propitiate anyone feeling aggrieved. I like a peaceful life, and as far as it depends on me, like to keep it so as much as possible.

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Anyway, the point of my posting this thread is to aid (hopefully) further interpretation, understanding, and discussion of the monument - though I agree access and permission are important aspects thereof!

:o)

cheers

Tim