Hob wrote:
That's so true. Sadly so. Ottercops Moss is a bit like that, the felling didn't crack that much stone, but the original planting back in the 70s did. The whole place is a right mess. At least Lurgan had you to go out tromping about to check the stuff that was exposed.
Lurgan was mostly covered it tooks weeks to clear what I did and there was still more to do .That panel that appeared at Achnabreck a couple of years back was the result of a tree falling over wasn't it? The one Brian went to see. How much stuff could be lying hiding under there? Bucketloads. If the trees never came down, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. Keeping the carvings nice and safe. But, well, you know, I guess eventually, at some point another ice age will come along and scour them away and no-one will have been any the wiser.
My usual reaction ,like yours too I imagine , on seeing newly felled hillsides is "get in there " but ideally there would be sort of watching brief but that's not going to happen .
Problem with that ice age is that it would have had the same effect as the previous had on any possible Paleolithic markings , except the indoor ones i.e. caves .