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fitzcoraldo Jun 23, 2007 13:38:41
Replying to Rhiannon

Howdo,
thanks for the kind words. I spent my solstice days mooching around East Cumbria. I had a good mooch around Shap and turned up quite a few potential avenue stones. I had a traipse over Crosby Ravensworth Common and checked out a few named stones and hut circles. I also had a mooch up around Moor Divock and think I've discovered a previously unreported circular setting.
The terrier had a good time, he discovered man-love with a lhandsome black spaniel belonging to the landlady of the Bulls Head in Shap.
The most bizarre discovery of the trip was a WWII mortar in a linear feature just north of the White Hag circle.

H Hob
Hob Jun 25, 2007 14:35:56
Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:
The most bizarre discovery of the trip was a WWII mortar in a linear feature just north of the White Hag circle.
Definitely a WWII mortar? Not WWI Practice trenches? They're scheduling those things in Northumberland these days.

Sorry, not very megalithic I know, but I'm mildly enthused about them 'cos they look so interesting on aerial/satellite photos. Like honeycombs.

Ahem. Anyway, yes. Rocks. They're good they are.

You didn't get a chance to see what's going at the southern end down by Shap Wells Hotel did you? I really don't know any detail about the layout of the destroyed Shap avenues, but there were some pretty linear looking groups of pink granite boulders down by the hotel and it's associated chalybate spring.

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