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scubi63 Aug 28, 2007 11:36:46
Replying to Rhiannon

I have been to some site and have just looked on in dispair (Lugbury, Windmill Tump, The Camp, to name a couple close to home).
You can just see the damage being done by small shrubs and trees that will only get worse as time passes. It is so tempting to go in there with some serious weed killer but my ecological morals forbid me!!
I would however be more than happy go in there with a small saw or cutters to help the land owners keep the ocal sites in my area clear of these 'floral thugs'. Though, as I am new to this caper, what is the best way to find out who owns the land or who should be approached about their upkeep?

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Aug 29, 2007 09:40:40
Replying to scubi63

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/44200/images/lugbury.html
this was it a year and a half ago, now there's an elder bush twice the height of the stones sticking out from the right hand side with a stem like the size of my (weedy little) wrist emerging from under the lovely big back stone. Just one little saw and ha! its lifeblood would be cut off.
I don't really give a monkey's about the brambles or the thistles or anything else, because those are superficial and add a bit of character I suppose. It's just that it's happened so fast, and is obviously being ignored by the owner or they'd have done it themselves in that amount of time? and the roots are pushing down and elders grow so fast. I wish I'd taken a photo now. The bastard thing will probably just regrow if I did cut it. One little poop from a bird sitting nonchalantly on the stones and the next minute a flipping great tree. I was all defiant and now I just feel defeated.

T tiompan
tiompan Aug 29, 2007 19:51:33
Replying to scubi63

scubi63 wrote:
Though, as I am new to this caper, what is the best way to find out who owns the land or who should be approached about their upkeep?
Maybe you should try something easier like the Riemann hypothesis . England would be more difficult than Scotland and that is a nightmare , try http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/latest_news.htm .
To give an example I was playing about in the Pitlochry area today the landowner lives a further 14 miles north . What appears simple i.e farmers owning the land they farm etc is far more complicated , many are tenants and the land is owned by someone who is unlikely to live locally but probably in a different country or it is owned by corporations , e.g. Commercial Union.