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Ditto.
I'll rarely get so far down the M6 (no car), but the idea of examining the "maybe it is, maybe it isn't" sites before posting them here has to be a good idea. There are big chunks of nowt on't maps that are unlikely to get explored by pro archaeos. Who better to do it than the folks who post here?

How many sites have gotten lost over the years 'cos no-one bar the odd fell-worker knew they were there?
Plus, I like the idea of tma being an appropriate place for the collation of obscure sites. I really enjoyed my day at Langley circle, hopping about and trying suss it out. I'd never have known it was there if it weren't for tma.
Re: Earthstepper at
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=13835


Hob

Yes.

I've also discovered that the archaeological community aren't particularly interested in accepting new site finds - actually. The most extreme example I have of this is a large stone row in Smithills, Bolton. There's nine hefty boulders in a straight line ninety metres long, in the middle of a field. The CA unit has stood on the road, beside the field, looked in and said, "just three glacial erratics". (I have that in writing - plus - "if there were anything there it would have been found by now".) There's an unmarked footpath which crosses this field. Two of the stones are carved with 'grooves'. If you can find the B + W pictures of Wayland's Smithy as it was before restoration there's *another* stone row in Smithills that looks like this picture. The archaeology unit haven't even bothered with this one - a track runs beside it and it shows on the aerial photograph as a distinct skidmark. (and so on).

So TMA allows people to visit this particular site - and the half a dozen others near it - until the CA Unit get their act together.

That's unique !