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thesweetcheat Jun 9, 2012 22:21:00

Went to Gray Hill today, I'd forgotten what a great site it is.

The vegeatation has been substantially cleared and some of the buried stones have been exposed (by digging). Is anyone aware of whether any professional surveying of the site has been going on?

On a much sadder note, some tosser has spray-painted the large standing stone nearest to the circle with a hand silhouette. It appears to have been done with black aerosol paint, which won't easily come off.

M moss
moss Jun 10, 2012 10:21:52
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Went to Gray Hill today, I'd forgotten what a great site it is.

The vegeatation has been substantially cleared and some of the buried stones have been exposed (by digging). Is anyone aware of whether any professional surveying of the site has been going on?

On a much sadder note, some tosser has spray-painted the large standing stone nearest to the circle with a hand silhouette. It appears to have been done with black aerosol paint, which won't easily come off.

Never visited but always fascinated by this place being so near to what was my part of the world.
So looking around there is a PDf file to be downloaded here of what has been happening in the past..... sorry it is a long link, one day I will learn to shorten stuff.

http://independent.academia.edu/AdrianChadwick/Papers/173368/Chadwick_A.M._and_Pollard_J._2005._The_Gray_Hill_Landscape_Archaeology_Project_Llanfair_Discoed_Monmouthshire._A_Summary_of_Fieldwork_2003-2004

And a second PAST Prehistoric Society 50 here, Rhiannon put on the first one..

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past50.html#MONMOUTHSHIRE

J juamei
juamei Jun 10, 2012 10:24:49
Replying to thesweetcheat

Makes me so angry to hear about such vandalism. I'm aware I might be starting to sound like a broken record, but please report it to the police. I *ahem* wrote a handy article about the best way to go about it here:

http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/how-to-report-dumped-rubbish-or-damage-to-a-heritage-site/

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jun 14, 2012 17:35:58
Replying to thesweetcheat

Sad to report that Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust have no record of any sanctioned work at the site, and that the digging around the stones (not to mention the spray-paint/campfire) is therefore a criminal offence as the site is scheduled.

The information has been passed on to the relevant Field Inspector.

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