I know it’s difficult not to be downhearted George but you took the issue from being a little known local protest to a national campaign, and for that you deserve our thanks and admiration. You may not have saved the landscape around the henges but the likes of Anthony Harding, yourself and a few other noble folk have ensured that these northern monuments have been placed firmly on the map as one of the prehistoric wonders of Britain.
I know it’s pretty grim but at least this landscape will be professionally excavated and recorded before it is destroyed, unlike the countless Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites situated on the bed of the North Sea which are currently being destroyed on a daily basis by gravel dredgers, unseen and unrecorded. All to fuel the unstoppable construction frenzy that is occurring all over our islands.
Good on ya George.