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Ladies and Gentlemen (and RiotGibbon)

A moment of your time please .... <clears throat>

TMA recently recieved a plea for help from Jon Pratty editor of www.24hourmuseum.org.uk 'Britain's National Virtual Museum'.

It reads something like this:

Dear editor

We're doing a story about some recent, very serious damage done by vandals to the ancient site at Maidenbower in Bedfordshire.

We can't find any pictures -would you, or any of your co-conspirators, know where we can get some in digital form?

We are a non-profitmaking .org, so we can't pay for the image use, we can put in links or email addresses.

With hopes for peace

JP

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He can be contacted directly via: [email protected]

He also asked in a second mail, when I asked him if he wanted me to post this here:

"Plus! Do any of your other readers have knowledge of damage done to other sites by metal detectorists or vandals? I think there's a longer feature in this."

Oh, I think there is!

Jon would appreciate any help that any of us can give him.

Thanks for your time.

"....damage done by metal detectorists....." seems like a good chance to enlist his (or anyonelse's) help in trying to get the BBC to re think their proposed new series! (Pete G et al posts passim)
Jimit.

It's Bedfordshire's most important prehistoric earthwork. That's not saying much :-)
I don't have any pics, but here's a basic listing:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1479

Looks like they found one:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXFIRST_=1&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26%2524sort%2b%2540descending%2bart_publish_date%3d%252e%26%2524%2528news%2bor%2bexhibition%2529%2bin%2bart_section%2bindex%2btext_wp2%3d%252e%26_IXDB_%3ddefault%26_IXSESSION_%3dmrKzWyvq23X%26%257bSIMPLE%257d%257band%257d%2524%253f%253a%2524%3dmaiden%26_IXmode%3dgfx_en&_IXmode=gfx_en&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=rm2&_IXSPFX_=search/full_gfx/&_IXSESSION_=mrKzWyvq23X&submit-button=summary

I found this too - wow!
http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/reports/archaeology/maiden.html

More good stuff here
http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/reports/archaeology/asfa.html

Andy