"Duchas (The Heritage Service) was shut down and merged into another department"

The same fate is about to befall EH. I think the idea is to split it between tourism and DEFRA - any known sites with known tourism value will be made into theme parks and sold off to private owners. The remaioning sites, be they known or otherwise will be "massaged" for development - de-listed, forgotten and ultimately lost.

We manged to catch Thornborough from this latter hole and it is good news that even Tarmac now see the value in making out this is a really good site for PR purposes. Maybe soon we will see charging for entrance and completely restricted access.

This tongue in cheek post is probably so close to the truth I will have to be shot for leaking privilaged information.