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nigelswift May 19, 2011 07:54:45
Replying to summerlands

Well your original question was
"if you had to draw up a list of rules for interacting with sites what would it be? And what are the reasons for each 'rule'? "


Basically only two rules are needed aren't they? Try not to damage the site and don't spoil the next visitor's experience of it.

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves May 19, 2011 08:38:51
Replying to nigelswift

This is all well and good. Don't leave anything but memories. Save your footprints for tomorrow's children. All that stuff. When the monuments at the Knar were getting fed through the crusher and I was calling for help there was silence. Nobody offered to help in any way. And it's gone. (I've decided to be more Zahi Hawass-like). In Smithills there was a superb and original drystone wall closing the long barrow at Toothills. Now it's smashed. Nobody has helped with that. Delaminated? It's shattered...

S summerlands
summerlands May 19, 2011 10:30:31
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Well your original question was
"if you had to draw up a list of rules for interacting with sites what would it be? And what are the reasons for each 'rule'? "

Basically only two rules are needed aren't they? Try not to damage the site and don't spoil the next visitor

But to not damage it you have to understand how not to damage it, surely? And that's more what my post was about the whys and consequences. Otherwise we'd all stay away entirely *or* unintentionally do things to harm a site that we don't understand harms it.