< Football yob culture >

Takes allsorts. I've known modern pagans to damage sites: Leeds witches uprooted one of the stones in 12 Apostles & used it as a seat; members of Rollright Trust deliberately poisoning moles & wildlife at the King's Men; New Agers re-arranging stones at a Cornish maze cos the energies weren't right. Then there's the Born-Again fruitbats - always good contenders for damaging sites where they think their devil lives. Idiots, as we can see, come in all shapes & sizes & use any excuses to justify their damages...

< Setting up decoys helps to deflect the mindless ones, I've found. >

My god - imagine that on Ilkley Moor. We'd be at it for years!

< Also, and it may seem distasteful, a thriving market in Rock Art would help. If a carved stone were known to be worth '2', say, then the owner would take adequate steps to protect it - barbed wire fence, zero public access etc. >

Can't go along with y' there old bean. The moors of West Yorkshire would be buggered. A coupla 'megalithic rangers' or summat would be the more effective thing - but can't imagine them there councilllors sorting the cash for that. Like I've said before: it's not Salisbury Plain.

Bring back the stocks - or do it in the old Scottish ways: tie 'em to a totem pole, naked, when the midges are a-rampant. ...& don't think I'm joking...