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What i mean is there are no curricks on Stainmore/Bowes Moor

The currick building tradition seems to occur north of the River Lune. The area south of this seems to have different upland stoneworking traditions which do not include the building of curricks

If there is no proof that curricks are prehistoric in the conventional sense then in what sense are they prehistoric?

None have been 'excavated' and any potential deposits beneath securely identified. There may have been a later currick-bashing tradition south of the Lune. If you can find the Slaggyford carved stone, on a sunny day, then you will be in no doubt that the stone erecting and currick building traditions are contiguous. The cross-section of a currick, usually, is also that of a drystone wall. My most important currick - Money Currick - has been reduced by the gamekeeper, who is named Craig and has less than the intelligence of a peanut. He also seems to have stamped my aluminium kettle flat. Slaggyford carved stone can be found on the SMR - maybe under a different name. It's among the 'Far House group'. Send me your postal address and I'll post you an 'entry visa' to these rugged terrains.

Check the date this image was added - http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=882&orderby=dateD
- and still nobody has seen the actual rock but me. There's a Tibetan Buddhist term 'self secret' and I suppose these stones must be that. (This is the carved rock that points to the curricks that lead the way over an upland pass to what-is-now Croglin, and the Solway.