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Respond to: Don’t destroy history with your cairns, walkers urged
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brigantia
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|  New Message Posted!2009-03-19 13:52
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On 2009-03-19 13:18, Andy B wrote:
This one could do with a site page for Beamsley Beacon:
Walkers are destroying priceless historic sites – to build hilltop cairns – and now a national park authority has pleaded to visitors to stop the custom to preserve structures that have been around since the Bronze Age.
Cairns have always been a contentious issue on Britain’s hills. For years, journalist and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has waged a war on what he sees as unnecessary edifices on Scotland’s wilderness peaks. Last year, many cairns were cleared from the summit of Ben Nevis and now the Yorkshire Dales are suffering from the cairn problem.
Rocks and stones are being removed from prehistoric sites by walkers making their own contribution to summit cairns. The practice is putting important relics at risk, including Bronze Age burial mounds.
Robert White, senior conservation officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, said: “There are problems at a number of historically important sites within the national park, including Beamsley Beacon near Bolton Abbey.
“During the Bronze Age, some 4,500 years ago, a large stone mound was built there, probably to mark the burial place of a local chieftain and to act as a territorial boundary marker.
“Much of this cairn, which is now about 11m [36ft] in diameter, still survives but in recent years it has suffered a lot of disturbance due to people using stones from it to make modern cairns and wind breaks. Another smaller historic cairn lies further along the ridge at Old Pike and that has also lost some of its stones.
More at Grough
http://www.grough.co.uk/view/2009/03/18/dont-destroy-history-with-your-cairns-walkers-urged/
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Hmmmm.....intriguing this one. Beamsley Beacon and The Old Pike - both huge ancient cairns on the same geological ridge - are akin to those on the Ilkley-side of the valley. It'd be good if they could make similar emphasis to the local council, or drystone wallers, who've almost completely destroyed one of the biggest prehistoric cairns on top of the moors there, just a few miles away. But I imagine, in this case, these 'authorities' will either ignore, or pass-the-buck of excuses.
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2009-03-19 13:18
This one could do with a site page for Beamsley Beacon:
Walkers are destroying priceless historic sites – to build hilltop cairns – and now a national park authority has pleaded to visitors to stop the custom to preserve structures that have been around since the Bronze Age.
Cairns have always been a contentious issue on Britain’s hills. For years, journalist and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has waged a war on what he sees as unnecessary edifices on Scotland’s wilderness peaks. Last year, many cairns were cleared from the summit of Ben Nevis and now the Yorkshire Dales are suffering from the cairn problem.
Rocks and stones are being removed from prehistoric sites by walkers making their own contribution to summit cairns. The practice is putting important relics at risk, including Bronze Age burial mounds.
Robert White, senior conservation officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, said: “There are problems at a number of historically important sites within the national park, including Beamsley Beacon near Bolton Abbey.
“During the Bronze Age, some 4,500 years ago, a large stone mound was built there, probably to mark the burial place of a local chieftain and to act as a territorial boundary marker.
“Much of this cairn, which is now about 11m [36ft] in diameter, still survives but in recent years it has suffered a lot of disturbance due to people using stones from it to make modern cairns and wind breaks. Another smaller historic cairn lies further along the ridge at Old Pike and that has also lost some of its stones.
More at Grough
http://www.grough.co.uk/view/2009/03/18/dont-destroy-history-with-your-cairns-walkers-urged/
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