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GLADMAN wrote: Yeah, poor Silbury. But a fence is never going to put off the moron who 'just has' to climb it, is it? But for my money Silbury's plight fades into insignifcance compared with that of many of our less well known sites. I've just returned from a visit to Picws Du (Y Mynydd Du) and experienced the sheer ignorance such high places are accorded by the masses..... for sure the Mam C and I were the only two out of perhaps a hundred to accord due respect (however you define that?) to a large Bronze age round barrow crowning the summit. No-one else gave a damn. Nothing. The centre of the monument appears to possess the remains of a cist. But not for much longer. Not at this rate. Silbury has it easy. But out of sight appears out of mind. I've just returned from an early evening tramp up Ridge Hill, East Moor to take a few photographs of the once beautiful ring cairn on the eastern end. Words fail you when you see how the bastards have ripped this sacred cairn apart to make what appears to be a sheep pen out of it. As the following pix show this nigh on 70ft diameter ring cairn with a central standing stone which partial excavation has revealed a cremation burial under a granite slab has been violated to a degree that brings shame to all who have contributed to its demise (not that they care a toss!). I really don't know what the answer is. Education doesn't seem to get you anywhere because in the main the overwhelming population today appear to have their own problems to deal with and simply turn a blind eye to what they see as no big deal. A landworker I spoke to on the moorland road beneath the hill saw it as 'Just a heap of stones'. https://picasaweb.google.com/1[...]authkey=Gv1sRgCOK3jZnhuoq-zgE#  This topic is locked | Posted by Sanctuary 31st August 2012ce 22:02 In reply to: Re: When she stands on Silbury Hill (GLADMAN) |
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