Visitors to a 6,000-year-old site who are removing stones and piling them up to be “artistic” could be causing significant damage, experts say.
Stones from Stowe’s Pound on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, are being used to build the “fairy stacks” by people “probably unaware” they are breaking the law.
The stacks have been described as “historic vandalism”.
The practice at the Scheduled Ancient Monument site has also been condemned by Historic England.
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Well it has even hit the 'big' news paper. 'Meditative creative skills' are OUT, wish they had taken more interest in the past over the cairn stacks that have also appeared over the years.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/13/stone-stacking-destroying-britains-neolithic-monuments-warns/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg
Well done to you and your team Roy!
Thanks moss and LS.
Yes this has been known about for years but that's as far as it went! Signage (on site) has to be a start. In the meantime TimeSeekers are on hand to tidy up the mess if called upon.
Good stuff Roy.
Thanks thelonious.
It's been in The Times now but with the same mistake - we are TimeSeekers (one word) not Time Keepers. LOL
A summary, and links to Stowe's Pound and other Cornish sites that Roy and his TimeSeekers team have worked on, can be found here theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/stowes-pound-fairy-stacks-slammed-by-historic-england-and-the-media/ . Well done Roy, and your TimeSeekers team, for all your ‘hands-on’ hard work and dedication!
"Fairy Stacks" are just unfinished "wind shelters".
Well not quite you would have to be very slim! Really it is just the old world being hit by the new. In this instance the practice of 'land art' is interpreted as vandalism on a prehistoric site, which it is from the historic viewpoint. In the good old days 'the Ministry of Works' cemented all those medieval castles into the ground!