Re: Swastikas at Belas Knap | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

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Swastikas at Belas Knap

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juamei Apr 7, 2013 06:17:39

Replying to thesweetcheat

Did you take photos? Please can you take time today to ring 101 and report it? I can dig out the "damage to ancient site reporting to the police" guide if you like...

EH are especially keen for all crimes at sites to be reported as they feel they are historically under reported so the scale and nature of crimes at sites etc isn't treated correctly by the police.

tjj Apr 7, 2013 09:11:48

Replying to juamei

juamei wrote:

Did you take photos? Please can you take time today to ring 101 and report it? I can dig out the "damage to ancient site reporting to the police" guide if you like...

EH are especially keen for all crimes at sites to be reported as they feel they are historically under reported so the scale and nature of crimes at sites etc isn't treated correctly by the police.

This is a thread I've read carefully and its seems a given we are all in unison on it. Find it hard to believe that its been done in the spirit of reclaiming an ancient pre-Christian symbol as anyone with those thought processes would be unlikely to be committing vandalism at an ancient monument.
Mocking seems to be the British way but complacency should never be allowed to set in.

nigelswift Apr 7, 2013 10:10:44

Replying to juamei

juamei wrote:

EH are especially keen for all crimes at sites to be reported as they feel they are historically under reported so the scale and nature of crimes at sites etc isn't treated correctly by the police.

Yes, we're all so use to thinking it's hopeless it's easy to forget EH and the police are now doing really good work through ARCH (the Alliance to Reduce Crimes against Heritage). They do need informing though and since someone or other from TMA visits the sites far more often than EH we can actually make a difference.

People who do swastikas are very obliging as the ancient ones are backwards so it's obvious whether it's been done by a misguided pagan or a football manager.

thesweetcheat Apr 7, 2013 12:35:09

Replying to juamei

Yes, I took pictures of two of them and I will post them later. I was then intended to email a link to EH.

The swastikas are the "right" way round (pun intended).