Help BAJR and the PAS at Thornborough

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quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host

There is no more need for arguement.. I am going

Evidently.

I presume when you are swinging your machine David you’ll bear in mind that BAJR guidance is “to make sure none of your work ends up straying even close to a Scheduled Ancient Monument” and to "put a good 50 metre buffer round it". Always assuming you think the archaeological landscape of this mile long monument extends only for a derisory 50 metres (well Tarmac does, and a particular set of less than heritage-sensitive detectorists do, so it hardly matters that absolutely no-one else does I suppose).

I believe that last year Atkins Heritage (commissioned by English Heritage and the Thornborough Henges Consultation Group) tentatively presented to the public an 8 square mile “exclusion zone” relating to various activities seen as threatening to the archaeology. I doubt that will happen but it makes you think, doesn’t it? Who knows what will be decided in the end, but whatever it is, having used a detector anywhere in the close vicinity will not be exactly seen as a badge of honour, that’s for absolute certain. The sad thing is that in this issue you are likely to be at variance with a lot of sensible detectorists. "Liaison without brakes" eh?