Jane

Not much to see from the outside....

damned fine exterior masonry

This sketch, made despite the wind at Deepdale standing stone where we sat, shows all the relative positions of the monuments and their proximity.

What a great vantage point!

No photography allowed in the tomb, but they couldn’t stop me sketching :-)

Quick sketch made on site. It was nice to sit inside- out of the wind!

The tops of the stones rose above the field of yellow weeds.

Sketch done on site

I wish 4Wdrive vehicles and motorbikes would act responsibly!

Although the authorities have done quite a lot of repair work, there are still vast areas of impassible ruts. What a bloody mess! This is just by the entrance to Waylands Smithy.

just like Little Meg, I thought.

This shot taken from the Goggleby stone. They’re very close.

Just behind Moth, who’s standing on the tallest stone left up, you can see the line of the M6. It really IS that close.

The stones seemed to float above the grass

Pink! The stones are pink and sparkly!

The stones really are this small. And I’m only a size 6!

Badly cracked stone at the south.

Just a really quick sketch made on site

Hideous quarry scars the landscape nearby.

It’s signposted at the end of the track (on which lazy buggers like me can drive) but requires a short walk of 250 ms or so...

Some ARSE had a lit a fire in the chamber. Grrrrrrrrr!

Impossible to miss, but there are a coupla stiles to get over if you have mobility problems...

We saw this exquisitely fashioned gold cup, found in Rillaton Barrow, in the British Museum.

I was surprised at how small it was.

Moth pulls back the ivy to reveal a second standing stone in Lidstone

Leodwine’s stone is now built into the end of a field wall