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It's an endless argument (and as I've been sitting here typing for most of the day I've helped propel it) but ok then - explain this one ( http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/53638 ). Was this quarry man sacked just as he was starting work ? Is it a natural flaw in the rock that has hollowed out with erosion ? Or is the photograph rigged (I hope you've signed the e-petition by the way)? Sometimes these little pits fill with water - no photographs of that though ...

Fairly unlikely, but first thought was 'small hole made to stand a bit of wood in'. People were smaller in medeival times, and they liked stading wooden crosses in holes in stones. Apparently.

Could be a fragment of a larger chunk of quarried stone that was too irregular to be of any use?

It is indeed an endless argument. Just look at all the friction generated by the stuff at the Langdale Boulders.