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Protecting Scotland's carved stonesA strategy document providing guidance for the care and protection of carved stones has been unveiled by Tourism Minister Patricia Ferguson. Carved stones provide a very real link to more than 5000 years of human activity in Scotland and are an important and significantly large proportion of the monuments and artefacts that survive from past times. Carved stones help to define the character of our environment and present-day identities, both local and national. Emphasising the cultural importance of carved stones, Ms Ferguson said: Scotland's rich and varied resource of carved stones is an important cultural asset; they are a tangible connection to a very human element of our past. Carved stones have enormous and largely untapped potential, particularly for sustainable tourism and educational initiatives, but they require active conservation. Effective protection of carved stones will continue to be achieved most effectively through better understanding of the issues involved and collective effort to address them. I hope that, with this policy and guidance, Historic Scotland and everyone else involved will be encouraged, and better placed, to identify priorities and implement strategies and action plans to respond to the needs of individual sites and categories of our important carved stones.Read more here from www.scotland.gov.uk |
Posted by Jane11th May 2005ce Edited 13th May 2005ce
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