Orkney

There is more info in that article than we learn on the tv programmes wonder if the farming family will ever get their wild flower meadow, also do they get compensated for having all that digging on their land?

Thanks greatly for this link, tomatoman. Have flagged it up on the Forum. Deserves it. Moss, Id be very surprised if the family were not adequately compensated for this very long term disruption. Soilwise, seeing what they want to have in their wildflower meadow, no problem. Whether they'll be around to see it is another matter. I've read of the layering of fine archaeology going back over at least a millenium...how they access undoubtedly very important lower strata without destroying that above is not an issue that I'd like to have on my plate. I wonder IF there were funds if it would be possible to somehow reconstruct the upper layers elsewhere, preferably nearby, so that there would be a continuity of the hugely important geographic context, as this site was chosen by the builders for a reason.