http://www.themodernantiquaria[...]04836/news/midsummer_hill.html

Well if you read the link below and the news on 'scrub clearance' on the banks of the Midsummer Hill fort, you come to a dilemma, tree roots disturbing archaeological remains should be cut down (or should they?) unfortunately there is the mess and destruction that the use of heavy machinery brings in its wake destroying ecological balance....
Most of us have seen bulldozed barrows, and Old Sarum had 'scrub clearance not so long ago.
Well, my heart is always with the trees and the wildflowers, the gentle dissolution of nature through the centuries, and of course the glorious show of bluebells which may come back but I doubt it, those machines ruin the soil structure, much better to use hand tools and horses to haul out the felled trees.
Conservation what does it mean? was Penwith moor actually conserved by the introduction of long horned cows under the auspice of the national bodies who are supposed to protect our heritage but they seem to have enclosed the moor with fences and structures to 'allow' people access.

Anyway, bluebells versus archaeology, or the indifferent hand of man when he supposedly steps out to protect our heritage!




http://sulismanoeuvre.blogspot[...]2012/02/midsummer-murders.html