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Moth M
Moth Mar 27, 2007 01:28:32
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
it is scheduled
Fair enough!

Rhiannon wrote:
and allegedly the oldest dated long barrow ? according to Magic.
Ah - that's probably why it's scheduled despite being so ruined.

Rhiannon wrote:
so why is it being maltreated in this way. What IS the world coming to?
Is your tongue in your cheek, R? Par for t'course isn't it?

Actually, I think most of the damage is pretty damned old - it's been ploughed down & the track put over it a long, long time ago. And then the plantation. No excuse for damage since it's been scheduled tho!!! Trouble is nobody gives a stuff - least of all EH & local council archaeos (or has money/time to do owt about it, depending who you believe) - as has been well discussed here.

Not a dig at you, R, but tbh even most TMAers just throw up their hands & then do piss-all - as evidenced by the lack of real help for the few that keep Heritage Action going. (Just for info, I've more-or-less given up working on HA myself simply because of the huge lack of interest from just about anybody in the world.)

:^(

love

Moth

N nigelswift
nigelswift Mar 27, 2007 08:23:08
Replying to Moth

The trouble with you Moth is you're not stupid enough!

Me, I keep going, on the assumption that the occasional stuff may be given, the occasional voracious quarry company might spare something in its way and the occasional official spokesman might actually be sincere about how preservation matters!

Completely loopy, I know, but when I stand at the pearly megaliths I can at least tell St Ba'al I had a go....

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Mar 27, 2007 10:25:22
Replying to Moth

It's all right, I fully accept my guilt and feel suitably bad, I do.
I do like to think that by digging out the old stories it helps bring places to life, raise their 'value' and help their cause. But I realise that it's not very practical and it's not a great deal of use spinning a yarn about something that's having a road put over the top of it, etc.