Howburn Digger wrote:
I am a bit intrigued about the harsh, regressive, restrictive regime in the South where freedoms like the abilty to walk over hills and fields, wherever one might wish, apparently just dont exist. This kind of trespass law silliness just puts me off.
Yes, it gets our goats too (both of them). Some English landowners are wonderful, putting up stiles and fenced walkways to monuments on private land, others not so, unfortunately. Sometimes a public right of way passes within a hundred metres or so of a monument in the same field, you might think that because of this you'd be OK, not so, as we've been lectured to a few times in the past.Unless it's blindingly obvious that the landowner is OK with visiting (eg a large sign with "Stone Circle this way, all welcome") we always ask permission now. Even this is not easy, you have to find the right place to ask (not always obvious!), and even if you do, farms are frequently deserted in the daytime.
Yes, the path of the English Megalithomancer can indeed be a difficult one.