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Mag Low seen from the track to Green Low...the right hand of the two sunlit green mounds
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The final approach in winter...but no other people
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The path to the cairn in winter: the rise before
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A skyline feature for miles around. Downhill due south of the mid point between them, immediately adjacent and on the west side of a broken down stone wall is a probable circle and alignment laid flat in the heather which defeats photography and correct interpretation.
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Looking down from rampart to stone, under end of large fallen bough. Cup marks visible.
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The other side of the large bough that landed on the rock. One cup mark visible to left by edge of bough.
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The point on the rampart of believed promontory fort where the cup marked boulder formerly rested before being pushed over the edge by vandalism. It now lies on a flat area twenty feet below.
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E end.. the OS says dyke starts further W, but is wrong. Ewden cairnfield at either side.
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Late Bronze Age(?) hut circle revealed by heather burning, Side Head Slack immediately adjacent out of shot. SK 2278 9580 (approx)
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Just a little taste of what I found at this large seemingly unrecorded site exposed by heather burning....s o much more......
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A fine kerbed cairn, this....not visible, but the stones encircle. Inward, mind the drop should you feel like venturing to the bilberry covered centre – a potential leg breaker. Approx grid ref SK 233963. Ewden Lodge Fm in distance, R, Ewden Height to its left beyond.
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From a mile away...in the landscape, on the horizon, left of the lighthouse. Doubtless similarily prominent from seaward: ‘we are/were here’.
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