Download the Thornborough Henges Rally report
Over at the British Archaeological Jobs Resouce site (http://www.bajr.org/), a document has been produced as an independent report on the recent metal detecting rally on the land around Thornborough’s Henges (not on the protected area). The Henges have been at the centre of a large legal battle revolving around Tarmac’s desire to quarry the area. More information on this can be found at Timewatch’s website.
Described by English Heritage as the most important ancient site between Stonehenge and the Orkneys
David Connolly volunteered to help the two local FLOs (Simon Holmes and David Evans) record objects and to aid him with his understanding of the (possibly) polarised views of archaeologists and metal detectorists. This has been subjected to some critical discussion on various fora and mailing lists, and I think we have to promulgate this piece of work for others to read. This version has been rewritten by David if you notice any changes.
To summarise, 215 records were created with 46 new finders recording with the Scheme. The details of these objects will appear on our database when the FLOs have entered their details.
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