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GLADMAN Aug 30, 2012 00:25:18
Replying to Littlestone

Yeah, poor Silbury. But a fence is never going to put off the moron who 'just has' to climb it, is it?

But for my money Silbury's plight fades into insignifcance compared with that of many of our less well known sites. I've just returned from a visit to Picws Du (Y Mynydd Du) and experienced the sheer ignorance such high places are accorded by the masses..... for sure the Mam C and I were the only two out of perhaps a hundred to accord due respect (however you define that?) to a large Bronze age round barrow crowning the summit. No-one else gave a damn. Nothing. The centre of the monument appears to possess the remains of a cist. But not for much longer. Not at this rate. Silbury has it easy. But out of sight appears out of mind.

B bladup
bladup Aug 30, 2012 00:58:17
Replying to GLADMAN

GLADMAN wrote:
Yeah, poor Silbury. But a fence is never going to put off the moron who 'just has' to climb it, is it?

But for my money Silbury's plight fades into insignifcance compared with that of many of our less well known sites. I've just returned from a visit to Picws Du (Y Mynydd Du) and experienced the sheer ignorance such high places are accorded by the masses..... for sure the Mam C and I were the only two out of perhaps a hundred to accord due respect (however you define that?) to a large Bronze age round barrow crowning the summit. No-one else gave a damn. Nothing. The centre of the monument appears to possess the remains of a cist. But not for much longer. Not at this rate. Silbury has it easy. But out of sight appears out of mind.

It is like some sort of punishment to end up on this beautiful planet with such idiots, it also gets me people can go to such beautiful places [they must like it] and just drop litter like it's the most normal thing in the world, with spoons like that what chance do the cairns have, it all makes me quite sad.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 30, 2012 07:09:30
Replying to GLADMAN

Look forward to your pics. It's a pretty trashed cairn, and sounds like it's getting worse. The one of Fan Foel is just as bad, despite it being cleared up not that long since.

[BTW - jealous.]

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Aug 30, 2012 07:57:58
Replying to GLADMAN

GLADMAN wrote:
Yeah, poor Silbury. But a fence is never going to put off the moron who 'just has' to climb it, is it?

But for my money Silbury's plight fades into insignifcance compared with that of many of our less well known sites. I've just returned from a visit to Picws Du (Y Mynydd Du) and experienced the sheer ignorance such high places are accorded by the masses..... for sure the Mam C and I were the only two out of perhaps a hundred to accord due respect (however you define that?) to a large Bronze age round barrow crowning the summit. No-one else gave a damn. Nothing. The centre of the monument appears to possess the remains of a cist. But not for much longer. Not at this rate. Silbury has it easy. But out of sight appears out of mind.

You're spot on the money there Gladman. If they can't sort an iconic site such as Silbury out that sits alongside a main A road in a World Heritage Site, what chance has a remote site got...zilch!!

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Aug 31, 2012 22:02:21
Replying to GLADMAN

GLADMAN wrote:
Yeah, poor Silbury. But a fence is never going to put off the moron who 'just has' to climb it, is it?

But for my money Silbury's plight fades into insignifcance compared with that of many of our less well known sites. I've just returned from a visit to Picws Du (Y Mynydd Du) and experienced the sheer ignorance such high places are accorded by the masses..... for sure the Mam C and I were the only two out of perhaps a hundred to accord due respect (however you define that?) to a large Bronze age round barrow crowning the summit. No-one else gave a damn. Nothing. The centre of the monument appears to possess the remains of a cist. But not for much longer. Not at this rate. Silbury has it easy. But out of sight appears out of mind.

I've just returned from an early evening tramp up Ridge Hill, East Moor to take a few photographs of the once beautiful ring cairn on the eastern end. Words fail you when you see how the bastards have ripped this sacred cairn apart to make what appears to be a sheep pen out of it. As the following pix show this nigh on 70ft diameter ring cairn with a central standing stone which partial excavation has revealed a cremation burial under a granite slab has been violated to a degree that brings shame to all who have contributed to its demise (not that they care a toss!).
I really don't know what the answer is. Education doesn't seem to get you anywhere because in the main the overwhelming population today appear to
have their own problems to deal with and simply turn a blind eye to what they see as no big deal. A landworker I spoke to on the moorland road beneath the hill saw it as 'Just a heap of stones'.
https://picasaweb.google.com/100525707086862773355/RidgeHillRingCairn?authkey=Gv1sRgCOK3jZnhuoq-zgE#