with the intention of promoting and recognising these ancient monuments?
SL, a guest article by you on Heritage Action, with photographs, might help but we're in the same cleft stick as the authorities - unless a site is not only threatened but also officially recognised we're reluctant to get involved - if it stays as merely a "possible" or worse still gets officially denied as being a site it does nothing for our cred next time. It's Catch 22 and I don't doubt lots of genuine sites have been destroyed by that mechanism. Mind you, lots of fully recognised and even scheduled sites get trashed as well, like 8 out of 10 tumuli for instance... We don't have a protection system we have a lottery... And of course, if you have a whole group of sites that you class as a sacred landscape, forget it. There ain't no such word in the Acts (there is in all the UNESCO and other international conventions we're party to but those are just foreign ramblings and are ignored).
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