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Children from a local school in Wales have also left their poetry (on stone) in a neolithic quarry on Mynydd Rhiw which has recently been excavated.. Why????

I suppose it's all about how you view and interact with sites. My personal opinion is that these monuments are not dead, their histories are still being written. I guess the local children may have been involved in the excavation and by leaving something of themselves they then become part of the quarries history. This inturn may foster a sense of ownership and belonging.

cheers
fitz

fitzcoraldo wrote:
Children from a local school in Wales have also left their poetry (on stone) in a neolithic quarry on Mynydd Rhiw which has recently been excavated.. Why????

I suppose it's all about how you view and interact with sites. My personal opinion is that these monuments are not dead, their histories are still being written. I guess the local children may have been involved in the excavation and by leaving something of themselves they then become part of the quarries history. This inturn may foster a sense of ownership and belonging.

cheers
fitz

If they did help to excavate it then they are already part of the place's history, because it has been recorded that they did so (if they did so).