When Time Team went looking for a Saxon graveyard, out 10 trenches covering about 2% of quite a large area, they only found one extra grave. Did they assume that there was not much there? No, they highlighted the fact that they had confirmed the existence of the archaeology they were looking for and suggested that a more extensive survey would uncover a significant number of additional features.

If you think about it, seven pits from a 2% survey means that for all we know there could be another 350 pits in the 98% that was not sampled - does that sound like "no archaeology"?

So, what constitutes a major site when we are talking about the short term camps of those that came to visit the henges? Do we have large short term camps around Stonehenge? I know one was found close to Avebury - what did that look like? Are we happy that we know so little about these short term camps that we are willing to allow Tarmac to consume this one?

I think you will find that camps such as these are extremely rare, this rarity means we know very little about them and it is this factor that Tarmac are trying to exploit. "We can tell you little about it so it can't be important", a bit like cursus monuments.....

Tarmac appear to have quarried both of North Yorkshires Cursuses.........