I guess you must have driven past the most recently recorded stone circle in Cumbria and not given it a glance. It's a mile this side of Alston and is undisturbed. Aren't four-poster stone circles - however tiny - rich sites to look for cupmarks?

I remember lifting my elder daughter onto one of the very large rocks at Long Meg and her Daughters, when she was small, pretending to walk away, saying 'See you later'. She didn't mind too much. It is she that carries my craft skills, in a latent form, by watching me work and helping me carry stone.

I have what I call 'one of Long Meg's errant daughters' on the fells near my basecamp. It's on Green Hill - is listed on the SMR - and has two cupmarks. Put there by the same people as at Long Meg, at least, and it is their tradition I carry.

Grrrrr.

"Feth-heads"?

love

Moth

There just aren't enough swearwords to adequately describe them.
( but you can imagine me reeling them of right now)

I was there last Saturday and noticed a similar patch of chipping damage on the opposite side of Long Meg. Dunno if it was done at the same time or since...?

Someone must go up there quite often - every time I visit there are new 'offerings'. Decaying fruit, crystals, feathers, symbols on paper blowing about etc.
And clay masks.
And a potted conifer this time.

I expect next time I'm there I'll have to climb over a white picket fence and tip-toe across the herbaceous border.