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No - that's untrue. If you have a map reference you don't need a person. My mobility is limited - I'm on foot - and when I'm in the country my time is almost entirely taken up by my wall when it's fine, and sheltering when it's wet. It's off topic but my gross carbon footprint is one and threequarter tonnes of CO2 a year. (It's not bad - the Chinese average is 3t. - and I capture some of that as new peat as well).

It's moving now - there's people starting to look at the stuff. I'm not bitter, just cross at all the time spent typing the same stuff over and over again, when I could have been at the pictures with Julie W. or rebuilding another Bolex camera or something ...

But - anyway - which of the SW Northumberland sites do you want to investigate - ring cairns, circle + 4-poster, long cairn, big earthwork or the copper mine? One per person. I've just 'assigned' one to Hob, knowing he'll not get there, and knowing it's got Rock Art. (He's got the tailed-cairn and 'observatory').

White person speak with forked tongue ...


Luckily I've got something up my sleeve.


As well as the monuments listed above (and I purposely excluded the Slagg. stone rows) there's a lost copper mine. It shows as a staining in a riverbed and is actually a cuprophilic (?) benthic algae. It just wants tracking back to source, starting from the railway station in Alston. It can't be far upstream otherwise it would be diluted. It'll be linked to the earthworks and perhaps paid for them (metaphorically).

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