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

Legally, George. That's what matters. And it'll be the same with the Henge landscape.

UNESCO's Management Guidelines for World Heritage Sites encourages the definition of buffer zones around key monuments and their settings against visual intrusions and other adverse impacts.

Thornborough qualifies as a World Heritage Site in everything except its name. That tiny detail gives Tarmac it's golden opening. Like the metal detectorist who discovers an unscheduled site, so with a mining conglomerate that digs up a place a few years before UNESCO arrives, it's rat-up-a-drainpipe time and the chance to shout: "it's legal, innit?"

Yes it is, and it's wrong, and the archaeologists who look the other way in droves are active partners in it. Sod them all. Where's morality in public affairs? What sort of profession sees huge wrongdoing and keeps quiet about it?