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Mr Hob, you're too kind. But you have to understand it's an addiction, pure and simple. I can't rest unless I'm putting more more MORE on here. There's little choice involved.

And I share your ideas about the electromagnetic effects - or whatever. Surely there has to be 'something' about places like Simonside, to accrue all these stories. Some People might just say it's all tosh, a way of explaining things for people that don't understand Modern Science and our nice rational 21st century. But surely there's no smoke without fire? Who knows.

Now about this here Arthur. I hear there's a 2004 book by the prolific Janet Bord called Footprints in Stone (Imprints of giants, heroes, holy people, devils, monsters and supernatural beings) which sounds just the ticket. Have a see at
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/42395;$B2$2E$A//Location/Oxbow
I haven't been able to get it through the library yet but I haven't tried very hard - could even buy the thing I suppose. So I don't know what it's like but it ought to give a wider take on the matter.

meanwhile keep on thinking and visiting.. I await with bated breath for your theories.

There was a television programme last week that I caught most of, accidentally, at someone's house and this was all about tracing the myth and history of Arthur (Arthur Stone is pronounced Ar Thur Stone, incidentally, just as Ar Thur Dent). I've got much better ones than this at the Knar. But anyway

The conclusion of this programme was that Arthur was a real person who died in a battle near to the Roman Wall, at a place called Camboglana. I've not looked it up on the map - it was a fort possibly. A country gentleman took the cameras into a typical Northumbrian open-sided shed and it was packed with Roman carved stones. Michael Wood scraped some of the moss off them and looked for images of Arthur among the carved figures.

The King's Crag and the Queen's Crags are named after Arthur and Gwenifir - I think this is from Tomlinson's Guide To Northumberland.