Re: What's acceptable when interacting with sites? | Forum

ocifant May 23, 2011 09:54:07

Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:

Education, education, education perhaps Mr S – that’s what this board and others like it go some way to achieving.

Indeed. I was at Rollrights at the weekend, and was appalled to see the Whispering Knights being used as a sort of Wishing Well! Coins were tossed all over it.

If people wish to donate money for the upkeep of the sites, there are better ways than littering the stones with coins, which can only serve to kill the delicate lichen growing there.

I mentioned this fact to the warden, and apparently a clearance of the coins is 'planned'...

nigelswift May 23, 2011 10:27:02

Replying to ocifant

Trouble is, according to the people there, most visitors are neither megaraks nor pagans, just one-off day trippers, often from abroad, so they just do what they assume is "traditional" because they see coins etc already there.

The trick is to get the initial "offerings" not to be made, or not made where they are made, but the idea of having a separate nearby space for offerings won't work as if people were willing to do that they would.

Sanctuary May 23, 2011 10:35:50