Yes - that's true.

I remember the rock crusher that the Faccombe Estates road-building crew had. Four keepers had warned me off viciously, a couple of weeks before it rolled into place, and I watched from a mile away as an enormous long cairn was fed into it. Without a long lens my photographs are meaningless but I heard the rattle as each load was tipped in, saw the plume of dust and caught the sound of it grinding in waves, on the wind. It made a roadbed five metres wide, a kilometre long and about a metre high. The county archaeologist only went up there when the road was finished. The head of planning - and that title should be capitalised - is to take early retirement in April this year (I hope it's on the first) as the planning regions are consolidated. I have the before and after pictures. And have survived!