This is a plea for help. In fact it is a plea to help the largest henge complex in prehistoric Britain - possibly Britains first religious capital.
Tarmac have applied for planning permission for the quarrying of land close to the Triple Henge complex at Thornborough.
The current quarry has already destroyed hundreds of archaeological features including the only known Mesolithic double pit alignment in the world and around 25 graves spanning from the Neolithic to Iron Ages. The proposed area is ten metres away from "the largest concentration of Neolithic features discovered in the North of England" yet miraculously, Tarmac don't think there will be much archaeology on the site.
Go to our website - www.heritageaction.org/thornborough.html for details or ask me here if you are not sure about anything at all. This was one of THE places to be in the Neolithic Pagan calendar - people travelled here from all over Britain to be involved with ceremonies that involved Solar, Luna and Stallar alignments, burial of high status individuals and deposition of valuable objects in water - one axe came from Penzance. The application site includes a water deposition area - possibly the last remaining one. It also includes the untouched half of the "ritual" settlement that revealed the largest Neolithic remains in the north of England.
It is very likely that the application has already been given "the nod" but it has only just been submitted. Now is the time to act.
Think about it - this is part of a 40 mile long alignment of seven identical henges - each is the fifth largest henge in Britain - the alignment is two ruler straight lines - one between Catterick and Tadcaster, the other strikes off from the centre of this line - Borroughbridge and travels to Thornborough. Try to find any other henge or stone circle complex to match this and you will quickly find that this is the largest construction of the Neolithic period - why do you not know about it? forty years of quarrying and one of the wealthiest companies in the world, thats why.
You need to act - write a letter of objection to our council. It does not matter where you live, we need to impress on them exactly how many people are going to be upset if this goes through.
Send me an email - [email protected] and I will send you a letter writing kit - all you have to do is fill in your name and address and the reason for objection (samples supplied), print it off, sign it and post it. It really is simple.
Come on, help us make this the turning point in Thornborough's tragic history, it is the greatest testimony to ancient man's inginuity in Britain - do not let them erase it.
Sorry for the double post, but I know a lot of people don't visit HH that do TMA.
