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The nearest RA to Kent might actually be at Stonehenge - remember the axes ?

Whenever I go onto the Quay, in the N. Business Park, the security fellas turn out in their van to watch what I'm doing (I wonder why!).

Collingwood-Bruce's painting - if it is a painting - of the Bewick main panel in 1865 has these elongated cupmarks, four in a line and a fifth not far off it, as part of the integral design, rather than as quarrymarks. It's odd because the 1860 drawing, by someone else, doesn't show them at all. (It doesn't show a lot of other things either). It's just odd.

I'm pretty sure the OB ones are quarry marks, mostly on account of the profusion of quarried stone lying right next to the carved panel. (You've got to be careful interpreting those old sketches and lithos of RA. You know how people have a tendency to see only what they want to see.) Exactly who did the quarrying at OB etc, and when, is open to debate. Some IA Northumbrian hillforts have revetments made from quarried stone, eg. Yeavering and Humbleton.