I love Castlerigg, so thanks for that link :-) I was particularly impressed with the your research and quoting of sources – that's some reading list. Hope you don't mind me being a bit picky though, some of the pictures obscure the text, at first I thought it was just in Firefox but it does it as well in IE6. The other thing is the date of the end of the Mesolithic, depending on who you read it was probably 6500-7000 years ago.

In return for me being an irritating pedant I'll offer the following couple of links though-

Interpreting the Axe Trade by Bradley and Edmonds (and others I think)

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521619378

I think this came up in a forum post recently too. It used to be over 40 quid hardback only, so 20 quid paperback seems like a reasonable deal, it must have a fair amount on Langdale I would have thought.

"Within this rock-fringed, airy world the stones of the circle seem to echo and reflect distant peaks, refracting the vast landscape to a more accessible level"

Not half! I don't know if you've seen the following, it could just be a happy coincidence or Steve could be really on to something. If he is, then prepare to be amazed. Check out the montage near the bottom of-

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/user/4063/weblog/0/27369