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Sanctuary Sep 1, 2012 15:54:12
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
bladup wrote:
Education, big sentence's for destruction and if all else falls physically protecting them, are the only answers that come to my mind
Mine too. And everyone's. But in the case of Silbury big sentences for destruction isnt really the issue and physically protecting them means bigger fences which is not on so that only leaves Education. Which very evidently hasn't been working.

And anyway, what is the education to say? DO NOT ENTER - in which case a lot of people will? Or please only go up by prior appointment (with polite reasons) (like it says at Stonehenge) in which case fewer people will go up and Silbury might start to be used as a "beacon site" in a push to engender greater public respect for prehistoric sites.

What IS the actual legal side of climbing the hill? The notice boards only 'suggest' you don't climb it, they don't say it is illegal to climb it do they? As June intimated a law needs putting in place with a HUGE fine. Okay you'll always get a yob or two sticking two fingers up but I reckon the hill would survive them...as it has the sheep :-)

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Sanctuary Sep 1, 2012 16:38:21
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
nigelswift wrote:
bladup wrote:
Education, big sentence's for destruction and if all else falls physically protecting them, are the only answers that come to my mind
Mine too. And everyone's. But in the case of Silbury big sentences for destruction isnt really the issue and physically protecting them means bigger fences which is not on so that only leaves Education. Which very evidently hasn't been working.

And anyway, what is the education to say? DO NOT ENTER - in which case a lot of people will? Or please only go up by prior appointment (with polite reasons) (like it says at Stonehenge) in which case fewer people will go up and Silbury might start to be used as a "beacon site" in a push to engender greater public respect for prehistoric sites.

What IS the actual legal side of climbing the hill? The notice boards only 'suggest' you don't climb it, they don't say it is illegal to climb it do they? As June intimated a law needs putting in place with a HUGE fine. Okay you'll always get a yob or two sticking two fingers up but I reckon the hill would survive them...as it has the sheep :-)
Here we go. Total disregard for authority and not a shred of regret as they know action is unlikely to be taken against them other than a warning! Mind you, reading the rubbish spouted by them, they really need sectioning!
http://www.cropcirclewisdom.com/1/category/extra%20terrestrials%20or%20unexplained%20entities%20at%20yin%20yang%20crop%20circle%2021st%20june%202009/1.html

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VBB Sep 1, 2012 17:03:18
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
What IS the actual legal side of climbing the hill? The notice boards only 'suggest' you don't climb it, they don't say it is illegal to climb it do they? As June intimated a law needs putting in place with a HUGE fine. Okay you'll always get a yob or two sticking two fingers up but I reckon the hill would survive them...as it has the sheep :-)
As you well know:

Silbury Hill is privately owned.

Silbury Hill is protected by the Ancient Monuments Protection Act.

Silbury Hill is also a SSSI.

Then there’s damage to fences.

Does there need to be more than a polite request from EH to keep climbers off the mound? I have suggested that a short explanation of the threat posed to irreplaceable archaeology and also the SSSI rather just ‘keep off’ would have a greater chance of persuading more not to climb than do now; but there again people don’t tend to read notices that don’t suit them…