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In the house where I grew up, on the side of a kitchen cupboard above the kitchen sink is a small wide yellowed print on a bent and battered cobweb covered card, faded with the light of five thousand sunrises and dappled from the condensation of countless boiled kettles.

<a href="http://cotch.net/image/1360189585"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1032/1360189585_d4ccb65b0f.jpg" border="0" alt="Castlerigg"/></a>

It's a print of the stone circle at Castlerigg, the Celtic Carles of Keswick, looking north over the shapely Cumbrian fells of Latrigg and Blencathra, known as Saddleback, in the northern lakes.

<a href="http://cotch.net/image/4399780508"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4399780508_25d2e1411b.jpg" border="0" alt="Castlerigg"/></a>

A neolithic druidical astronomy set, aligned with the autumn equinox and set centre stage on a minor eminence in a cavernous amphitheatre.

<a href="http://cotch.net/image/876098290"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1351/876098290_94f6cb0340.jpg" border="0" alt="Castlerigg"/></a>

An antique shelter for the sheep, trap for the tourist, and prop for the photographer.

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Built to catch the light and the lightning, the sun, the snow and the storms.

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