The question is - which front door?

I have a stone in Newcastle that will shake the Rock Art world to its foundations - when they deign to look at it. I've been trying to get through to Aron and will continue to. I'm just going to persist in the early part of this week. (Eclipse very early on Thursday morning, so will try to persuade him to walk out to see it on Wednesday). It's just a quarter hour stroll from the university to where the stone is. I've plenty of photographs of it.

The earthfast stone in Knarsdale certainly does need photographing. It's covered in uncounted micro-cups, and has been under turf, so they're in fairly good condition. As it's the only exposed rock in a field, and is beside a gateway, it's quite easy to find. It's about three hundred yards from the farmyard and the metalled road. The farmer will tell you anything about it - other than how to find it.

There is a collection of these micro-cupmarked stones about there but most are quite heavily eroded. It's soft sandstone. I know if you found the first one (and nobody has yet) then you'd 'break the jinx' and return to look for the others. One of them is a standing stone and, theoretically, they're all on the SMR. If anyone goes to look for them then they get spun around by the farmer's tales. I've suggested that anyone that goes to see them leaves 50p by the gate in the yard. This would help to straighten farmer John out a bit.

Sorry this is long and involved. The valley is full (and I mean full) of unexplored archaeological remains - some are unique to there. I've taken the county archaeologists to two sites *outside* the valley - to a huge stone circle and to a collection of stone rows. The circle they said 'ok' to, the rows they said 'medieval field boundaries' and then one identified a cup and ring stone amongst them and listed it under the wrong placename. (Find it here as 'Low Thornhope' - it should simply be 'Thornhope').

I can post the directions to find the micro-cupmarked stone - no problem. It doesn't have a name and I should also point out that 'Far House' is probably a mis-transcribed 'Knar House'. Mrs Farmer John is lovely, as is her daughter (and this has become an essay!)