Thornborough Henges: Tarmac will appeal

The very welcome news that Tarmac has lost the first round in the battle to save the historic landscape around Thornborough Henges is tempered by the fact that Tarmac have announced that they will launch an appeal and that they hoped “factual evidence” would prevail at its appeal.

It is very important, therefore, that the archaeological community takes steps now to prepare to meet this new threat.

George Chaplin has petitioned Parliament with a request that “the House of Commons take all necessary steps to ensure that all quarrying activities be excluded from within a one mile radius of all the scheduled monuments known as the Thornborough Henges, these include the Central, Southern and Northern Henges, and the Thornborough Cursus.”

Please support this petition!

You can find a Word version of the petition at: http://snipurl.com/muhl

If Word doesn’t work for you, then there is a PDF version at: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/thornborough/petition.pdf

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