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tjj Oct 9, 2011 17:18:59
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
GLADMAN wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has a more blatant - not to say pointless -example of 'official' monument desecration than this... I really hope not, but guess I'd be surprised if there isn't.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/101529.jpg

Erm, Priddy?

Bloody golf courses, so many hillforts ruined. Norn's Tump (Glos) long barrow luckily hasn't suffered this badly, although visits will be met with the usual disapproval and tutting. Bastards.

I was up on Minchinhampton Common a couple of weekends ago (when it was still sunny) and noticed there is a much denuded long barrow on the edge of a golf course. The other place I can think of is the hill fort at Painswick Beacon which forms part of a golf course.

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GLADMAN Oct 9, 2011 18:47:40
Replying to tjj

thesweetcheat wrote:
Erm, Priddy?

Bloody golf courses, so many hillforts ruined. Norn's Tump (Glos) long barrow luckily hasn't suffered this badly, although visits will be met with the usual disapproval and tutting. Bastards.

I thought Priddy was the result of a private land owner? You'll always get the ill educated or unscrupulous who don't give a monkey's. But golf courses are usually owned/run by councils or (apparently) respectable organisations, are they not? Ha! Don't make me laugh. Money talks.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 9, 2011 18:47:44
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
I was up on Minchinhampton Common a couple of weekends ago (when it was still sunny) and noticed there is a much denuded long barrow on the edge of a golf course. The other place I can think of is the hill fort at Painswick Beacon which forms part of a golf course.
Yes, the long barrow is right in the course (I think they may have stopped using the green next to it). Painswock is terrible, because it's such a great site otherwise. Cleeve Hill has a golf course next to the fort as well. Then there's the Bromfield barrows near Ludlow (if you don't get hit by a golf ball you might get run over by a racehorse). Some coastal barrows we found on the Lizard this summer are on a course too. There are plenty of Scottish examples too. Can't think of any as badly treated as this one of Gladman's though.