Spot on Drew. As had been said on this forum plenty of times, TMA (and other sites like the Portal) has actually created a massive heritage record that the official bodies don't have the resource to produce. A lot of our posts aren't up to the kind of standards a professional archaeological assessment would require, but the point is that we are getting out there and recording the current state of preservation.

I love seeing posts for obscure out of the way sites. Drew, you've done wonders in terms of adding to TMA for your corner of Scotland, and many of the sites are precariously balanced in terms of their survival. I've really enjoyed Bladup's Cornwall pics this week, as loads of them are of seldom-visited places, off footpaths and not in the guidebooks (even the best, local guidebooks). These sites need attention and preservation. Gladman has made a number of impassioned pleas in other threads for the same degree of concern to be shown to the very real, daily threat the obscure sites face, yet time and again the topic of conversation is perceived threats to Silbury, Avebury and Stonehenge. I know they're vulnerable, but they're hardly unrepresented and any damage is very "public". Not so the trashed upland cairns, the ploughed barrows, the toppled stones in remote fields, the fly-tipped hilforts. Protecting, monitoring and educating about those "little" sites is as essential (to my mind, more essential) as concerns over the latest person to climb Silbury or build a house a few hundred yards from Avebury's banks.