Sorry about that - Knowth then.
Most wallers, in my experience, are not literate beings. They are also, socially, 'right at the bottom of the heap'. It's part of that process of destruction of the oral tradition. There's hardly anything left.
The situation in Bolton makes a wonderful 'case history'. The County Archaeologist is 'playing dead'. No one's been to look for the stones ...
This website has allowed me to publish the first pictures, not only of the Smithills stones, in north Bolton, but also a lot of the stuff I've found in the South Tyne valley; Knarsdale, Kirkhaugh, the 'Wogglestones'. I am enormously grateful for that.
I've noticed a pear-shaped motif, carved into similar places on two different stones in Northumberland, and the shape doesn't seem to be catalogued by Stan, in his Rock Art books. I have written to him today (about something else) and have suggested that this erotic pear-shaped carving should now be described as 'teardrop' shaped. That's a little thank you. There's a good example on one of the Haughton Common flanking stones.
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