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What's the harm with biodegradable offerings though? I can see the objection to plastics or anything that might linger and disturb future archaeology, but if it's just a corn doll or something......

Easy answer: numbers.

A popular site in Cornwall for instance can have dozens of visitors in a day. If each leaves just one biodegradable bloom, with a week or so there would be a small compost heap on site.

*Someone* has to clear it up in this situation, so why not the people that want to leave the stuff there in the first place?

CASPN organise workgroups to clear sites from time to time (rota on their website), which includes cutting back undergrowth, ensuring access routes are clear as well as clearing out the 'tat'.

Mustard wrote:
What's the harm with biodegradable offerings though? I can see the objection to plastics or anything that might linger and disturb future archaeology, but if it's just a corn doll or something......
Something that has pissed me off for a long time is leaving memorials on remote hill tops , places like the top of Ben Nevis are covered in people wishing to show their grioef in some material form , there are appropriate places for these sort of demonstrations , graveyards and Buck House . I recently came across a memorial cairn on the top of an Argyllshire hill fort ,worse it was built on top of rock art . It seems to be getting worse post Di , But today I came across a wooden sculpture near Dunkeld providing a seat too and a place for brass plaques , this I thought totally appropriate and not a selfish maybe pagans could find some sort of similar construct .Perhaps if they became more aware of the little we do know of thes sites they believe were "for " burials they might go elsewhere . A church has burials but there is a lot more to it than that most of it relatively positive but maybe a few cleft skulls and possible sacrifices should be highlighted never mind the weirdo "lets swap the jaws of that one with this one and take away the feet " that happened at their fave sites .