fitzcoraldo wrote:
I think that perhaps if these places were elevated in the public imagination then they might just be treated differently and given a little more love and respect.
I'm all for promoting these places, naturally. That's exactly why I have my website. I'm hoping that the poems were left in a sensible place close to the quarry and so don't impinge on it unnecessarily.
fitzcoraldo wrote:
It's gotta be better than just preserving them as some kind of relic, forever frozen in time.
But where do you draw the line. If I own a portal tomb, should I be allowed to wrap it in tin foil, for instance? If so, should I be allowed to square off the capastone so that it's a nice shape and more asthetically pleasing to me? Should I be able to install a counter and sell icecreams through the portal?
fitzcoraldo wrote:
It should always be a case by case thing but I personally haven't got any big problems with including peoples responses to ancient sites along side the sites themselves.
Case by case is always the way, I agree. I love to see such things, too. At Ballynageeragh portal tomb in Waterford there's a little sign made by the local school, but this is 50m from the tomb as you approach. At Carnagat, Co. Tyrone (I think), there's a lovely big sign by the local historical society, who bought the tomb and fenced it in and laid a path across the bog to it. The latter is just 5m from the front of the southern court, though.