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Cairns to get protective covering
Bronze Age cairns on Exmoor are to be wrapped in fabric to protect them from
souvenir hunters.
The ancient monuments on Dunkery Beacon in Somerset are thought to be more
than 3,000 years old.
The National Trust said they had been damaged over the years by walkers and
sightseers taking stones as souvenirs.
An earlier attempt to get the cairns covered was turned down, but an appeal
this week to the Planning Inspectorate was successful.
The trust's countryside manager Nigel Hester said: "We are delighted by this
decision. We will be beginning work on the cairns over the forthcoming
months to protect them in advance of the winter weather."
The geo-textile fabric will be covered with stones and then seeded with
heather and moorland grasses.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/somerset/4710425.stm
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