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It’s a simple question but rarely answered truthfully.
It’s mostly not landowners, museums, science or the public.
So who can it be, since those are the only ones that deserve to benefit?
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IronbridgeGorgeWHS @IronbridgeWHS
“UNESCO World Heritage is looking for 30 lucky applicants to take to Saudi Arabia for the opportunity to understand and assess the achievements of the World Heritage Convention”
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May we suggest they invite the top brass of English Heritage, Historic England, The National Trust and others who are supporting the Stonehenge short tunnel scheme in defiance of UNESCO?
Socrates explains that if you hide something you can’t see it.
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Yet there’s still no word on whether it can’t or how it came about.
“NB: The Dunmow Rally is run by the Rotary Club purely for charitable causes.” It’s a false claim though, isn’t it? Unless the charity gets all the finds, which they don’t.
Why hasn’t PAS written to Rotary International and told them what they think of large detecting rallies? (i.e. they won’t attend them as they “can result in the loss of much archaeological information“). Beats us.
Especially as Rotary run far more rallies than anyone else so must be responsible for the loss of more archaeological information than anyone else. Not a good look.
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An HS2 spokesperson said: “We are aware of a small area of ground movement within a field above the Chiltern tunnels. Investigations are ongoing, but this is likely to be linked to pre-existing ground conditions above the tunnels. The site has been sealed off and there is no risk to the public.”
So it’s not the tunnel’s fault. It’s likely to be due to pre-existing ground conditions, i.e. the fractured chalk through which the tunnel was driven (ground similar to what exists under the Stonehenge World Heritage Site).
Reassurance from National Highways that it won’t (and can’t possibly) happen in Wiltshire is awaited.
Found by a metal detectorist in 2019, the “near Pulborough” torc was declared Treasure late last year and valued at £16,000. Most of the money has been obtained through various grants but now a final £2,200 is needed in order for the detectorist and/or the farmer to be paid their full entitlement. Only then can it be acquired by the Barbican House Museum in Lewes and publicly displayed near where it was found.
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Who should pay the final £2200? School kids out of their pocket money? Old ladies out of their pensions? Both will be willing. But wouldn’t it be better to ask someone who has recently been enriched by £16,000 for doing no more than delivering to the public what’s owned by the public in accordance with the law?
Here’s our confident prediction: most landowners would see the justice of that and comply whereas most detectorists would explode in fury and threaten to go on “reporting strike” as they have so many times before. Draw your own conclusions.
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“Near permanent traffic jam” is a lie. “Immediately next to them” is a lie.
But the biggest lie is the visual one: look at that image at the top left. It’s nowhere near the stones, it’s up the hill and probably over the brow, it’s not taken from the stones and may not even be visible from them.
If that’s not yowling moggy No. 43 we don’t know what is!
We read this lovely prose by archaeologist and author Jlm Leary:
“The rhythm of the changing seasons beats through our landscape like a heart: days extend and shorten, light grows and fades in strength. And this rhythm pulses through us, too. Or at least it did once…. But for those who listen carefully, that rhythmic beat is still there, tapping out its tempo… This spring I will be heading to Castlerigg and Long Meg and Her Daughters again, and I will take care to listen for this cadence that will connect me to them, and them to the land and the sky.”
And we thought of this by Pencil Museum @pencilmuseum: “Today’s the first day of spring! This inquisitive lamb is hiding behind the historic stones at @EnglishHeritage Castlerigg Stone Circle
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