postman

Then I saw the top of the boulder and was suitably blown away. One of the best rock art panels in England.

Note the tiny cup marks at the bottom of the picture

Cawr what a thing!

Are these two cup and rings joined by a smile?

The two main big boulder panels.

Right on the edge, very close to the hill fort, there are three cup marks next to some natural weathering.

At least three cup marks amid natural weathering.

There’s another cist up the hill

The closest two flat stones are I think Kerb stones rather than cist lids, unlike the furthest flat stone which is still next to it’s cist.

Two cists and two cist lids

Overgrown cist and it’s lid/capstone

The “paw print” my favorite part of the rock, carved in the shiniest crystalline part of the rock, probably.

Summer solstice sunrise 2019

Summer solstice sunrise 2019

Summer solstice sunrise 2019

Summer solstice sunrise 2019

Simonside just visible above the horizon.

Hovering magically above the stones, does it look like the right hand stone is slightly out of place?

Bullseye

It was so misty when we started I wasn’t keen on our chances of finding this site, but the voodoo goddess did her thing and miracles happened.

A bit Down Tor isn’t it?

Zooming over the stones towards the “zone of utter devastation” that is the china clay works, which has grown in size since my map was printed. Eric said this of the quarry, awesome yet terrifying, imagine what the world would be like if we were actually trying to break it.

Great Trowlesworthy Tor fades in and out of reality, but the stone circle remains steadfastly in our dimension.