Rebsie wrote:
I'm alarmed that "conservation" involves chuntering over the site in a big tractor and lighting fires.
AKA demolition
Rebsie wrote:
All around the Cotswolds where I live there are long barrows with dense clumps of trees on them. And while you wince at the thought of the archaeological damage the trees are doing to the barrow, you're aware that if they weren't there some Victorian farmer would probably have ploughed it flat!
...and some modern farmer still will when no-one is looking.Apropos of nothing...I had often wondered if trees on burial barrows etc were legacy of grave good seeds/acorns/pinecones left with the deceased...a possibility???