I've found the remains of a stone row on the site. It seems to be a little double row - Burl type d - and runs broadly east-west. It points toward the rounded promontory below the Alston TV transmitter, in Mounthooly Plantation.
The curricks on top of Little Heaplaw are arranged in a crescent with their centres about three metres apart. There are many other stones on the ledge below so I assume they have previously been taller.There is just one place, in front, where these curricks appear to be equally spaced. They are about 1350 metres (give or take a hundred) from the stones and this will allow some trigonometry. I expect angle 'a' to be about one degree.
The Gilderdale Burn goes underground just below the road bridge and re-emerges just below the railway bridge. It's a very unusual phenomena and I've not noticed it before. There must be some caves and it looks like magic to me !
I shall put a little glass jar in the fieldwall beside the gate, on the roadside. Can visitors to this glorious ruin (and I'm not talking about myself here) please leave fifty pence or a quid for John the farmer to compensate him for 'wear and tear' and 'loss of amenity' ? He's ok.
Smallhenge is aesthetically close to this beggar http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=2112&orderby=dateD
which is near Carnac. Here the structure is closed by stones - at Kirkhaugh the little enclosure is defined by a bank (7m. x 33m.) which is then studded by boulders. I'd like to see it fenced off - there's not a great possibility of that !
Back, back, back !
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