Well aren't you the lucky one living near it.....what about the rest of us?

Here's a couple of emails from Britarch -

"As the person responsible for the laser scanning of the stone it's exceptionally fragile due to the action of the fire on the moor.
If a single person were to attempt a rubbing of the stone, there's a good chance the carved surfaces would detach and be lost forever.

Alistair Carty
Technical Director
Archaeoptics Ltd.

> Alistair,
>
> Surely, a good art conservator should be able to stabilize the surface
enough
> for its safe transport to somewhere that it could reside under glass? Even
if
> the state of technology is not advanced enought to tell us more about it
now,
> it should be preserved for the future when that situation might change.
>
> It seems that burying it again it such a fragile state will condemn the
> surface to fragmentation through water action and changes in ground
> temperature.
>
> Do you know if a larger image will be made public?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John

Surely if this article is so fragile then redepositing it to the soil will
in itself be destructive before the soil water and animal actions take a hold. Is this political correctness gone completely insane? BA artefacts
are rare enough and the fact that this as come to light all be it out of
context etc that we should use this to further our knowledge of this little
understood period in our history.

Rob "

Oh and the comment about pillboxes was meant to highlight Redfern's (potential) lack of knowledge of prehistory. But you've seen it haven't you?