Oh it is - unless you want to build a road through it, then it's not a complex at all - just a set of isolated monuments that happen to be close together - no relationship between them - just a coincidence that the ancients chose to build there. Thus, like Thornborough and elsewhere a settlement at Tara is no more important than a settlement elsewhere.
Of course at Thornborough the discovery of the Neolithic settlements (that had no relation to the Neoithic hegnes of course) coincided with the discovery of two mesolithic pit alignments that converge close to the northern henge. this unique piece of Mesolithic ritual construction was of course of little value according to Tarmac - we all know that the Mesolithic peoples did not value their ritual piut alignments - this is why they built so few of them.
When it came to the discovery of Britain's most easterly square barrows (again, placed here by the ancients as a pure coincidence and nothing to do with the henges you understand) these were again not regarded as important because (and I quote Mike Griffith's) "there's probably hundreds elsewhere - we've just not found them yet".
And whilst these statements are being made in a factual way to the local people, there are no archaeologists checking the facts and informing the public - none at all as far as I can see. Especially those emplyed by the local authority (you know, the people WE pay to protect our heritage).
Does this not smell the same odour as Tara?
And when someone like me comes along and says "stop destroying the ritual landscape of Thornborough, all the developer can say is "we are definately not going to quarry the henges", when the Tara group say "this road will have a major impact on the ritual landscape of Tara" we get the response "We will definately not be taking the road through the Hill of Tara".
So rather than debate the merits of the destruction that is proposed, both developers would rather subvert the truth - falsely accuse the protestors of lying in an effort to throw public attention off the primary concern.
