I put the path theory to David Miles EH's chief archaeo a few years back when he was in the throes of discovering that UWH is prehistoric, and he showed me on the section that it couldn't have been a path.

You could have not me down with a featherlite condom, I was certain it was the only possible explaination and had taken bearings on long distance paths and correlated them with field boundaries - the paths exist and the route up to the hill but the archaeology of the figure doesn't agree.

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