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Cerne Abbas Giant

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harestonesdown H
harestonesdown Nov 4, 2013 02:26:24
Replying to PMM

PMM wrote:
Of course damage is important. Why for example, do people get upset about Silbury Hill being climbed? Is it because it's damaging the structure? Or because they think it should be fenced off from the rest of society, so that it can only be viewed from behind a velvet rope.

I don't agree that these monuments should be preserved behind glass. If it's possible for people to interact with our heritage without damaging it, then that seems far healthier than removing them from public contact.

I've no problem people with an interest interacting with the sites, but this was whoring the man for publicity, nothing more. These people wouldn't even click to sign a petition if he were facing destruction.

They pimped the man.

C common era
common era Nov 5, 2013 13:07:38
Replying to harestonesdown

I have no problem with this per se, in fact I do see it as a pretty clever advertising/awareness campaign in many ways.

The only thing that ever-so-slightly puts me off such things is that for 15 years I lived in Canada. It was while I was there that my interest in prehistoric Britain germinated and grew. Whenever I came back to visit these shores I would make a point of visiting as many sites as I could to get my fix.

The Cerne Abbas giant was not among the places on my list, but I might have been somewhat disappointed if I had travelled 6,000 miles to visit such an iconic site, only to find it being used in this way.

It's a small point, but there might be people who have made a pilgrimage to see it as it should be.

Having said that, and I know it probably shouldn't, but the Homer Simpson stunt of some time back now did make me smile...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/images/2007/08/10/homer_chalk1_470_470x300.jpg

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