Hi Fitz - i just reread your blog. Well worth further perusal. Great stuff - thanks for that.
Much more mooching round the land is in order I think.

Shap local history society have a talk on Oct 25th - Prehistoric Shap by Gabriel Blamires (wrote the axe factory pointer stones book). So I'm hoping I have the time to be there and bend a few ears over cups of tea afterwards.