Thornborough "debate"

[mercenary]

quote:As for the ploughing without a solution to the current landuse those pits are condemned to destruction and without any record. If that happens then you have got to ask yourself what has all this been about.

Indeed. And we can't ignore the perhaps unpalatable truth that the quarrying has allowed the area to be much better studied than any other northern henges. Presumably research stops now. (I don't really want to get into a debate about destructive vs. non-destructive techniques -I've done enough geophysics and fieldwalking on prehistoric sites to know that you don't know what you've got till you excavate.)

I wonder if Dr. Harding will be coming back in later years with research proposals that use destructive techniques. If he does, a large part of this debate will have been a simple academic vs. professional turf war.