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Re: Is it possible to contract a geophysics survey?
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It's an old story - the long cairn through the crusher. And one that will continue to be told as long as I have breath. It wasn't a good one and had already been robbed for stone, but on a small scale, with a tractor and trailer, rather than a specialist JCB. It made a road six metres wide, a metre deep and half a kilometre long. The road did not have Planning Permission. My complaint has been continually ignored and I have a folder of stuff an inch thick. So, no it wasn't protected. That stone circle at Featherstone was protected. Presumably it was scheduled as an Ancient Monument. In Northumberland the rules don't apply if nobody sees you doing it, or they can be frightened off (allegedly). Anybody looking for stuff will be told 'oh, you can't come up here - it's private'.

I moaned endlessly on here about the long cairn being crushed - everyone just looked the other way. I'd been threatened with being shot and my greatest rgret is not going up there with a camera and catching the crusher in action. The county archaeologist couldn't care less - 50+ miles from his office - and I'd tried to have the heap of stones listed on the SMR as a 'sacred hill'. I've plenty of photographs of the remaining scar - and of the damage that was continually done to my basecamp and belongings.

There were some nitwit Rock Art surveyors who went up there and abandoned their survey after just one stone. I'm still trying to find out who they were and why they (a) just visited one stone, (b) didn't ask directions to the other 20+ stones and (c) decided it had natural cupmarks, when it clearly hadn't. All answers gratefully received.


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Posted by StoneGloves
12th October 2010ce
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