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Just to add my own comment here. I was delighted to win a copy of Gabriel's book in the August 2014 photographic competition and took it to the Lake District on our trip there on 10th/11th August 2015.
We used chapter 4 as our guide to walking the Mickleden Way and sought out the first 8 of the boulders he lists (we intended to find more but time and dusk stopped us from progressing further). Whilst some boulders stand out in the landscape (4.5 Pike O'Stickle Pentagon and 4.6 the recumbent wedge stone), others, such as 4.1 and 4.2 (recumbent, slanting pentagon topped block and 4.2 recumbent lozenge topped block) we would not have been able to isolate without the book as they formed part of a larger group of (smaller) stones lying next to a brook running down from the peaks above. Both my husband and I found the alignments difficult to spot, and was glad I had the book to help - the grid references were spot on!
Sorry, but based on the first 8 stones we located, I'm not convinced about the alignments, but the book lists loads of others which I'm keen to investigate further when time allows.
I'm absolutely positive stones were used as pointers in times gone by, and look forward to seeing and learning a lot more. Thanks for the book, Gabriel - it is well written, well researched and a great reference book. The Mickleden Way walk is beautiful in its own right so I'm looking forward to trying the other routes that Gabriel details.
I've posted some photos of boulders 4.1 to 4.8 on the Langdale Axe Factory page - Portal Admins let me know if you want me to create a separate page for these.
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