5th July 2010, 02:37 PM
you can have a bike track on every monument in britain and they will not do a 10xthousandth plus of the damge done by agriculture every year. so this iron aged hillfort went redundant in 750 bc and nothing for 3000 years happens there untill some some national quango goes around monumentalising mostly unused bits of land making out that there is valuable archaeology there when in the main there isnt but does not pay a penny to research these places or pay anything for archaeologists to live off and then when someone wants to take up off road hillfort biking we are then told about it by someone who probably is trying to justify their job but still wont pay to preserve by record. I bet they have gots lots of unused hillforts which maybe what they should do is select some that could be used for offical off road driving, maybe use the spoil heaps from digging and put evaluation trenches in difficult situations. I bet it would add an extra diemtion for of roaders knowing about the lumps and bumps that they are jumping over, treat it like a bit of coouiinrty archaeology