Me aidez? M'aidez? Mayday?

M

moss Jun 1, 2008 18:43:31

Replying to Stoneshifter

Stoneshifter wrote:

I wonder if there's any point in asking for help? The shooter of Knarsdale Estates has just paid for an unplanned road to be driven through a listed roundhouse site (at NY653484). Miraculously they missed both remains but excavated a huge amount of roadstone from a quarry just where the perennial spring was. (I don't know what's happened to it - no doubt it will resurface somewhere). The protagonists are getting quite aggressive and I'd appreciate some diversionary tactics to tire them. A search, on the Northumberland S.M.R., using the term 'knaresdale' (sic), will pull up many genuine items, from several time-frames, that are under-reported locally. Flamboyant 'Indiana Jones' disguises/aliases are welcome. I'm pulling out great photographs, but at considerable cost 'to my nervous system'. This call is urgent, by the way, and 'you haven't seen me' ...

Hi Stoneshifter, the grid.ref. you give shows lots of shakeholes, sheepfolds and lots of burns/gutters (streams?) with a waterfall, but no specific site, as it is an unplanned road do you mean farm track? Why is it being made? letter writing in the local newspaper helps.. but unless you can 'present' a case, its difficult to follow through. You need only look at the Rotherwas Ribbon road to understand that 'official bodies' are not necessarily prepared to act.

T

tiompan Jun 2, 2008 08:51:36

Replying to Stoneshifter

SL ,I've just added a couple of pics to the Craig Hill site http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/68085/craig_hill.html?stream=date
I foundthe marked rock about 4 years ago ,pic is not too good but the rings are very widely spaced and not that common , Stan Beckensall did a good drawing of it in "Circles in Stone" though , the next pic is what it looks like as from a year ago , a new hill track built over it . If the track is going to cause damage to archaeology then it is the responsibility of the county archaeo to sort that out and I can't believe that they are that incapable .

S

Stoneshifter Jun 3, 2008 05:57:56

Replying to Stoneshifter

It doesn't look as though I'll be deluged with offers of help ...

S

Stoneshifter Jun 3, 2008 09:51:57

Replying to Stoneshifter

I've found a setting of four stones just before the station at Lambley. There's a line described, which is probably a stellar rising or setting and now obscured by trees on the horizon. And I've identified what-seems-to-be a facade to the putative Herdley Bank long barrow - and it faces south (which is unusual). I'll try and get photographs on Saturday - with luck.

Me aidez? M'aidez? Mayday? lock