StoneLifter, my boy!
< Firstly, can you remove the alternative names you've posted for 'David's Cairns'. >
Ey...!?
< If they're still there in a week I will begin to use pejorative terms for you, here. >
I don't care!
< I've worked in many rugged environments and have a full range of vile expressions. >
Ooooh...lovely.... Some of it might turn me on!
< Second, in the E.H. definition of monument classes they say about cupmarked stones 'A cup and ring marked stone is a rock or worked stone slab bearing one or more circular depression(s)/cup(s) [ ]. The cups vary in size from 0.02m to 0.20m in diameter with a maximum depth of 0.06m.' >
It's damn obvious you know little about prehistoric rock art mate (as many on TMA know pretty well!). If you have to quote an English Heritage statistical description about a cup-marking, you're obviously not quite with it. EH are very poor at assessing cup-markings (apart from surveying already existing sites), as shown by their invention of numerous sites in Yorkshire which, quite frankly, are either utterly natural, or extremely dubious. That's not to say that every carving they locate is such, but they're still only youngsters in this field. As are you... Like I said aeons back on another forum: I admire your enthusiasm, but it's obvious you don't wanna listen to others if they make critical assessments of your alleged sites. In the event that people correct you, you haven't - nay won't, listen. An attribute you'll not find me copying in megalithic issues. If I'm not sure about summat, or make a mistake, I'm willing to be corrected (as you'll see if you peruse a few earlier TMA forums - this one included). And from where I come from, I think that's pretty reasonable.
Please think about this: if you're gonna include somewhat dubious sites to this website, unless you're damn sure of its archaic veracity you might find someone who has a lot more experience in the subject shout you down. But I find that people only get shouted down if they're unwilling to either listen, or learn, or both. Rock-art and prehistoric remains are things I've been exploring, recording and writing about for more than 30 years and it's obvious from your writings that you haven't. (sorry if that sounds arrogant and blunt everyone, but what the hell am I supposed to say to someone who thinks, that because he's spoken to 'Stan', he knows what he's talking about!)
...Oooh - and if you wanna add some new names to the sites I've stuck on TMA, feel free. The vast majority of 'em are catalogued and referenced in archaeology tomes and journals. Inventive sarcasm is always summat I've enjoyed!
