we went for a walk this morning up on the moors. recently there has been a series of trenches dug up, and we thought they would be for an archeology type of thing, especially after seeing people there with clipboards and small shovels.
today we stopped and spoke to one of the people up there, he told us that it was what we thought, however they were doing it because the whole area was about to become a 200ft high dumping ground for a new quarry (well an old quarry being reopened), and the area would be having a road built through it, and heavy lorries would begin to use it.
another beautifull place lost to "progress"
:'(
That is sad, we don't seem to value what we have. Near where my parents live is a 2.1km long Cursus monument, dating to 3500BC, of which only 300 metres or so was left unquarried, & now they're going to quarry that as well, gone forever, the only good thing is they are doing a rescue archeological dig! There is loads of other gravel they could quarry around there as well!