Your fieldwork never fails to intrigue me, BlueGloves - I can just imagine us there: you doing your stoney thang whilst I regail you (and approaching emissaries of the white sultan) on my accoustic guitar. What an image!
It used to be a man on a fiddle - he would play to the stones I had re-arranged and 'turn them on'. He will appear on my website as 'Rory McGrail' - moved to Whitby to look after his mum a year ago.