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Indeed.

But there’s no publicity value in that. People are talking about it - it made the BBC news – that level of publicity would be well worth 2 grand of Channel 4’s money. I suspect they will be chuckling away to themselves hoping for even more of a furore.

-Chris

It's no good moaning about Channel 4. Money will always attack conservation and good taste. It's the NT that need sorting.

It comes down to respect for the sites, in the end. It ought to be common sense and it ought to run in the blood. If it doesn’t then there are recommended rules to guide people, eg….
http://www.warband.org/warband_old/sacred_sites/aslan.htm
and
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=9

Even the wretched geocachers, who don’t have natural respect running in their blood, have signed up to follow the guidance.

Someone in NT doesn’t have natural respect in their blood, which is a shame, so perhaps we should treat them like geocachers and send them a copy of the guidelines. It would be interesting to ask them if they agreed with them, and in particular this bit:

“do not move, mark or alter the monument in any way, even temporarily”.