Hi Baz

As J's really busy at work at the mo, I'll risk poking me nose in....

Think the correct link to the story is now http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/archive/2003/09/10/ames_news2ZM.html - I'll try to remember to ask J to change it this evening!

I was the last one of the 2 of us to go to the tip. I didn't have time to ask & go up to the henge (assuming that's what you mean!), but from the tip, it looks like it's now pretty well grassed over but I couldn't see any stones or owt from that distance. (Last time we actually went up to the henge - prob about 6 mths ago - they'd pretty much only just seeded it.)

So you still thinking about coming to Julian's Oxford gig?

love

Moth

>> "This site proves that Bronze Age Brummies were far more sophisticated than we gave them
>> credit for," Coun Peter Douglas Osborn told city planners.

No comment :-)

>> "You can tell it was a sauna because of all the round stones on the site. They used it for
>> recreation."

Surely the wrong 'R' word? If he wants to save them he needs to learn to use the other 'R' word a bit more.

A thorough excavation of the area would be wonderful.

Disgraceful tactic that, bigging up a burnt mound, of which there are many in that area, to stop a development. Water voles as well, they only seem to occur on development sites. ;)

I just hope the Thornborough kangaroos can be saved.

There's another 'burnt mound' in Birmingham, straddling the tributary that runs through Moseley Bog. Lots of rolled/ firecrazed stones still on show there.
I'm guessing the stones are mostly round as they are 'river rolled' or post glacial. Most mounds i know of were build next to rivers or tributary's.
See, haven't meantioned the R word at all!

Coulpa links to info..

http://www.b13.net/lc_cms/page_view.asp?ID=505

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=17276&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=11889

Give it a visit if your in the area, it's a lovely wildlife reserve, green woodpeckers are just one of the many species living there.