Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites project

Current info:

• Heritage Action calls demonstration and 'open-air conference' to protest neglect of Silbury - Saturday 29th May: meet in Avebury at noon, then people will march to Silbury.
  There is also a 'Save Silbury' petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/Silbury1/petition.html


• Rollright Stones vandalised with paint


• Stanton Moor situation
  • PDNPA defending 'Dormant' status of quarries in High Court, London, 18 and 19 May.
    See press release on PDNPA website - http://www.peakdistrict.org/news/copy/2004/13May04a.htm
  • Determination date postponed from late March while High Court adjudicates 'dormant' vs 'active' claim. Determination expected early June 2004.
  • see our own press statement (issued feb 04) on renewed quarry application in NEWS
    

  Statement by CPRE at http://www.cprepeakandsyorks.org.uk/pressrels/Pressreleases2004/09.02.04.htm PDNPA statement available from PDNPA website at http://www.peakdistrict.org/ - go to 'essentials' and 'news'.
  Protest Camp statement accessible from www.megalithic.co.uk
  For broader issues on quarrying see CPRE release at http://www.cpre.org.uk/news-releases/news-rel-2004/04-04.htm



• controversy about Thornborough Henges and possible threats to their landscape from quarry applications - see website at http://www.friendsofthornborough.org.uk. This situation is being debated between various archaeologists and heritage personnel and of course the Friends of Thornborough who have initiated a petition (linked from the site above). Details of this are disputed - see news thread at www.megalithic.co.uk for an idea of the different positions adopted (see 'comments' to the thread). This debate is continuing on the BRITARCH email list.


• see http://www.savestonehenge.org.uk/ for information on current Stonehenge situation. Stonehenge enquiry started 17 February 2004.

A press statement from CBA expressed some criticism - their fuller statement is at http://www.britarch.ac.uk/stonehenge/stone28.html

Strong reaction from SaveStonehenge is at http://www.savestonehenge.org.uk/.