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It's awful. But the King's Stone has graffiti on it going back a lot longer than the 90s I think (and look at the graffiti at Robin Hood's Stride). It seems there's always been some who feel the need to tag everything.

Yeah, I know tagging in some form or another's always gone on, but my memories go back to the '60's when I was a kid ... the place was pretty pristine and you had to look for it. Any undesireables used to head for the Reform Tower, the visible landmark, then. It's a tossup whether this was my first site or Stonehenge, but it was certainly the first where I felt I could commune with the past in solitude, apart from Dad, and for this reason a raw nerve now. I'm hopefully back up to Galloway in a fortnight for a short annual break, health, weather, missus and work willing, my need to find somewhere respected and 'other's suddenly been increased..... : (