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Resonox May 19, 2011 05:37:03
Replying to drewbhoy

A while ago, I found what looks like a ploughed out roundhouse or tumulus in Sussex, whilst browsing GE.....I posted the coordinates on TMP and someone kindly "flagged it". Now this is in the middle of a field....I assume I have no rights at all just to go there and investigate (without the landowner's permission)...regardless of whether or not I claim it as part of our/my/Sussex/the UK's heritage. So that brings us full circle in the question...do we actually have ANY rights to access ANY sites just because they exist and we claim them as "heritage"?

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 19, 2011 06:01:25
Replying to Resonox

Resonox wrote:
So that brings us full circle in the question...do we actually have ANY rights to access ANY sites just because they exist and we claim them as "heritage"?
No - not on the grounds they are "our heritage" anyway. Worse, although c. 30K sites are protected, a million archaeological sites aren't, and can be ploughed up or otherwise destroyed with impunity.