Aye, it's tricky one. The spiritual side says leave it to the sea and the practical side says preserve it. If you preserve it (in a museum) it's little more than the carapace of the culture the created it, but maybe we learn something of that culture along the way. Can't remember the exact details of the chainsaw incident but that seems to have been a very insensitive act when emotions were running so high.

To be fair to the conservators, preserving something like this does take time (the central stump is still undergoing treatment) and getting funding for the new Lynn museum probably also took quite a lot of time and effort.