24th March 2012, 01:44 PM
I spent much of yesterday writing a report discussion of which a large chunk had to be spent dispelling the garbage that the local County Archives Service no less have posted on the interweb about the 'history' of the site - although to be fair if you check closely they do sneak in the old "it is said that" clause - no single 'fact' presented (which included dates, people and events!) was supportable in any way on available evidence (for the medieval period documentary evidence =0), yet there will now be thousands of people out there who think they know all about the place - scary! No peer review on the web. Out of interest I had a look on Wikipedia and the entry there is actually more accurate than that produced by the 'professionals' simply because it says less!....and even gives references so you can check their 'sources' and make your own mind up....eek! Never thought I'd be holding up Wiki as a paragon of academic virtue.....:0