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Departing… Stuart France

* With the afternoon heading inexorably towards evening at a pace… and a two-and-a-half hour drive before our next hostelry ahead of us… * * We probably did not really have time to explore… * * But I am so … Continue reading

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Table-top-Mountain… Stuart France

* “Strange how these, now hollow, structures always appear to be associated with a hill.” * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Descriptions … Stuart France

* Two singular stones, And one duality… * Yet, tantalisingly, there are lots of other stones, seemingly strewn, and lumps, and bumps, and cavaties, Continue reading at Stuart France

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Playing Place… Stuart France

* Well, it didn’t take us long to get there did it? But let’s ponder a moment what this structure could mean… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Circle of Stone… Stuart France

* If ever there was a monument that ought to be regarded as fake. This is surely it. So far as we know it is unique, although there are many holed stones. The others are usually uprights, stand alone, and … Continue reading

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Across moorland… Stuart France

* These strange, narrow tracks betoken something, processional, perhaps… exhaling us where they do with little work to accomplish. * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Riding the rollercoaster

The day did not start well, either for me or the little fish I had to remove from the tank. It was no surprise that it was dead this morning… it had been looking a little off-colour the night before, … Continue reading

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Yet another disappearing stone… Stuart France

* “It’s got a ‘wen’ in it!” * And if we had not already twigged that really should have clinched it! * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Morrow… Stuart France

* …Well, if they did, they also intended us to work for it. * Part of our problem proved to be scale. What we call a lay-by is large and well marked. What they call a lay-by is more of … Continue reading

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A visit to spiral castle… Stuart France

* Although we didn’t know it at the time, Ballowal Barrow is a ‘Faery-Fort’. It is situated close to a now disused tin-mine and miners, during the late nineteenth century, upon finishing their night shift, are said to have seen … Continue reading

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