The Hurlers 3
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As a site that actually does attract the general public; the pros and cons of re-erecting the odd stone seems a little irrelevant. What I think is missing is an appreciation /interpretation of the wider landscape. Casual visitors may wander up to the Cheesewring and Stowes Pound as its a nice walk but if the project could present the landscape in context, it would improve the awareness of the importance of this prehistoric heritage as well as the later mining sites. Linking Rillaton, Stowes Pound, and the huts and circles of Craddock Moor (?) with the Hurlers would give them a better context rather than being a landscape folly near a car park at the start of a walk (Joe Publics view ).....perhaps they could divert the road and build a visitors centre !

>What I think is missing is an appreciation /interpretation of the wider landscape.

I agree. To be honest, the hurlers spooked me once, so I am a bit ambivalent about the site itself, but it's placement in the landscape was no random act, and this should be highlighted to visitors.

Given that the area has been so worked over in the years since the stones went up, I'm unable to decide if I'd look at reconstruction as just another chapter in it's ongoing history, or as gratuitous tampering with a monument that has put up with enough grief over the years as it is. Fence sitter that I am.