Fair point - I will try to give more detail where I think not everyone is in the know but I don't get a lot of time on here and obviously on a message board we all tend to write in brief.

In respect of the trench I was speaking of it was for the recently installed water pipe to supply the drinker for the sheep. Scheduled consent is a requirement as is a watching brief by an archaeo for such works, but EH overlooked it. I don't mean they ignored it, they simply forgot. This of course can happen to anyone, but surely not in a WHS.

They are known not to take prisoners so imagine what would happen if this was your listed house and you didn't get their consent !!!

Even then I think this one incident could be overlooked were it not being one of so many examples of cock-ups and arrogance during this five years when the public have been starved of clear iregular information.

VBB