The focus of the New Civil Engineer report is on the argument between @UNESCO and @NationalHways about the road's damage to Stonehenge's prehistoric landscape in interesting detail. Summary in thread. 1/ newcivilengineer.com/latest/unesco-… @UNESCO has repeatedly asked @NationalHways to remove the cutting through an area with extensive deposits of the Beaker period/Early Bronze Age, compromising the "intactness of the highly significant ancient cultural landscape." 2/

There's been some push-back against winning an appeal hearing here on Twitter, Facebook & by email. We’re either accused of being NYMBYs for living there or for not experiencing the traffic nightmares first hand. Here's our shout-out 📢 Several committee members & their families use the Stonehenge section of road and are directly familiar with the traffic problem. Despite the disadvantages of the current situation, we are aware that many residents would rather NOT see the Stonehenge scheme proceed.

Day 2 of Issue Specific Hearing: we shall film Prof Mike Parker Pearson next. 30 minute presentation by Professor Mik Parker Pearson. The slides can be found on p14 onwards of the Blick Mead and Consortium of Archaeologists’ submission. Recorded on an iPad.The quality is poor but adequate. Worth the effort!
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We’re at #A303Stonehenge Issue Specific Hearing, Cultral Heritage. Intros include Prof Mike Parker Pearson, other archaeologists, CBA, Stonehenge Alliance, National Trust, Historic England, DCMS (Keith Nichol), English Heritage & Wilts Council, ICOMOS-UK …structure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc… Blick Mead /archaeology team opens with a strong objection to permanent damage to the integrity of the Outstanding Universal Value would breach the Convention on World Heritage. There’s no trade off. Protections “apply to whole area”.

Compelling submission by ret’d field archaeologist, Dr David Field about ancient fields system next to A303: "It is now clear that systems of ancient fields dating at least to the Middle Bronze Age and probably much earlier flank the present A303 at the western end of the WHS /1 and the settlement from which these were farmed is likely to exist within the A303 corridor," he says. Dr Field concludes: the "zone thus becomes of enormous importance in realising the social mechanics of the communities that built Stonehenge." /2