Some damage to the tents when I got back. It may have been copycat vandalism. The shooters were quiet all week - just arriving on Black Hill on Friday morning. It was bright early on, clouded over when they showed, and tried to rain at lunchtime. Finished my wall and that shepherds smout, got out on Friday. Left nothing behind but my footprints, a couple of plastic buckets and a Wilkies' spade.

The tally of monuments I've found this year is reasonable. One each of a long barrow, standing stone and long cairn. A pair of ploughed out round barrows. It's fair to say that the support I've received from the various agencies has been laughable. Support by my contemporaries - nil (but there's no prizes for second place). The main achievement has been in verifying the observatory - which I now realise is lunar - at Broad Mea, at the head of the valley. It's the only known Bronze Age observatory. The failings have been in not photographing the Whitehouse Four-Poster nor the roundhouse foundations near Money Currick.

When I delivered my stores in May I encountered a hillwalker - he'd just been diagnosed with Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder and was going back for more tests. I've not seen him since and fear the worst, but he told me about going into the Tynehead levels, near Garrigill, Alston. He told me that the water was at waist height but the walls were the vivid green of Malachite, a copper ore. So it seems that there were other prehistoric mines nearby and, consequently, that there will be more monuments associated with them (just waiting to be found).

It occurs to me that anyone wishing to study human nature could forgo meditation and Freud, Adler and Jung and simply study sheep. I've encompassed my research findings in a short video which is at ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8964200684062967711 ).