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A very good turn-out - there were seven
of us: Ken, Clive, Graham, Malcolm, Nicola, Judith and me. The only
problem was the fog. It was so thick when we got to the car park at
10 o’clock that we had to wait about three-quarters of an hour for
it to lift enough for us start work. While we were waiting we went
to look for the big cairn by the road junction that we hadn’t
visited on Monday. It took us long enough to find that too. We
discussed whether it was really a ring cairn, or whether it was a
round cairn that had been badly robbed, perhaps to surface the road
at some time, but you can’t tell be looking at the surface.
After that we thought that the fog had
thinned sufficiently to go looking for cupmarks, so we searched the
little valley to the west of Carn Penbugail, where the ring cairn
with the slabs set on edge is located, as we wouldn’t get lost
there. Mind you, when we got up to its north end the fog was still
thick enough that the two people on the far ends of the line couldn’t
see each other. When we had done the return transect, we decided to
look on the south side of the road as it was much clearer there. We
found three stones set on end, which we thought might be the sort of
little standing stone that you sometimes find associated with a group
of cairns.
Dr. Edith Evans
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