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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4108897.stm
Interesting new carved stone find,
PeteG

I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the excavation of the stone , I've been biting my tongue over it for nearly a year now.
It's a wonderous thing.

maybe the fire was pre destined,its certainly thrown up a legacy from days gone by..thats a beautiful stone,hopefully we will learn much from it.

That looks like a plan of fields - or a pot decoration gone irregular.

I found (and lost) a link in which someone from EH was speculating it might be a picture of a landscape. Mentioned possible depiction of mountains in the background. If you rotate your head about 100 degrees to the right you'll get the idea, but it's not exactly arresting.

there was a mention of this on ceefax last night,apparantly it could well be a map of some sort according to some boffin.

Wonder if it was found near to the "listening ear" at Fylingsdale, that enormous truncated temple to eavesdropping. Must have travelled that road last week on the bus, most of the moors round there seem to be fenced off. It could be like Dartmoor underneath the heather vegetation with stones and settlement patterns.

Don't expect to see it, now its been studied by the experts its been/to be reburied.

English Heritage archaeologists said the relic, which is unique in England and considered internationally significant, may show a map or landscape drawing – thought to be a first for rock art.

English Heritage took the decision to return the stone to the moor rather than put it in a museum.

"We could take that stone and put it in a glass case in a museum, but it would be just as far away from us there as it is in the ground. It's the image that's important and we've kept that."

and

"It is the image we are interested in and this would be equally inaccessible to the public if it was in a museum somewhere. I am dreading coming back one day to find it has been dug up and put on eBay!".

Does anyone know who found it? and what their thoughts on the matter are?

I can see EVERONE's point(s) on this. Tricky & probably no (full) win situation I reckon. (Not that it makes much difference what any of us think!)

I'd love to see it too, but a replica'd 'do' me, personally - if necessary.

Just to clarify, Fitz, are you suggesting the Gardom's Edge solution? I may be with you on that whole solution, ideally, but do you think it's safe enough with the 'replica' effectively marking where the real thing is? Or is it not really directly above the real thing or summat?

And I'd wanna know about 'natural' degredation, as I haveta say that there's a 'dispassionate' (& mebbe 'soulless') bit of me that sez put it wherever it'll be safest and best preserved and let anyone/everyone see replicas, both in situ and in museums (if they want to exhibit em).

love

Moth

There is another angle to this. Would they have re-buried it if it was Roman and of such importance? I don't think so.