The cavalry to the rescue: 17 of the most formidable scholars you could wish to see as signatories to a letter to The Times opposing the #StonehengeTunnel have saddled up & come galloping over the horizon.
They are not happy.
They are not happy.
"An area within the WHS the size of 20 football pitches will be destroyed because the tunnel is simply too short... Half a million artefacts are destined for oblivion: they will be destroyed without trace by mechanical excavators... This destructive strategy is unacceptable."
"Grant Shapps, transport secretary, overruled a recommendation from planning officials to allow the scheme to proceed."
He's also overruled UNESCO & the leading academic experts.
Still, at least he's got the chief executive of Highways England onboard... thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
He's also overruled UNESCO & the leading academic experts.
Still, at least he's got the chief executive of Highways England onboard... thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
"It's one of the few places, not just in Britain but in the world, where you can see a special, sacred landscape developed over thousands of years."
Mike Parker Pearson, one of the signatories to the letter to The Times, opposing the #StonehengeTunnel
Mike Parker Pearson, one of the signatories to the letter to The Times, opposing the #StonehengeTunnel
Here is another video I made, this time about Blick Mead, the Mesolithic site right next to where the eastern portal is scheduled to be built, and which is being excavated by David Jacques, another of the signatories to The Times letter
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