Setting | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

BrigantesNation Feb 21, 2006 16:09:36

Thanks for the well wishes people, I'm obviously very happy about todays decision as well as it making national press, which is probably the more important of the two.

Can I ask you all to write off some letters to the national press? We need to keep Thornborough in the public eye for as long as possible.

Setting
I could do with peoples thoughts on the setting of a monument. We have a load of different archaeological features in this land and a commitment to preserve the setting of the important stuff.

Some stuff is small, like barrows, oter stuff is big, like forts.

How do we TMA's think setting should be judged?

FourWinds Feb 21, 2006 17:13:12

Replying to BrigantesNation

Setting: one of my favourite subjects :-)

Many people will say that the setting is the <i>entire viewshed</i>, which is a very, very important and probably the major part of a site's setting. Obviously sites like barrows on the slopes of a hill can not just be contained in a setting that consists of the viewshed, because there are parts of the hill that can't be seen from the barrow itself. These surrounding areas must be part of the setting too, even if they can't be seen.

I think the above kinda says that, in my opinion, a site's setting is the immediate vicinity, say 500m radius (maybe 1km to be safe), and the entire viewshed of the monument.

PeterH Feb 22, 2006 12:57:50

Replying to BrigantesNation

Congratulations and very well done, but keep your eye on the ball. Its not done and dusted yet. Its not over 'till the fat man sings and he has overturned local decisions often enough. You need a lot of tarmac when you drive two jags.