> I can confirm the message that Mike put on the bulletin board. I would like
> to make a couple of comments.
Me too.
>
> 1. The correspondent 'Janice Neil' should be asked by someone (English
> Heritage?) where the gold bars are that were allegedly found near the Golden
> Stone.
Yes, and also where other artefacts pillaged from the site over many years,
and not only by metal detector users
>
> 2. The Golden Stone was scheduled as a late medieval boundary marker, not
> because gold bars were allegedly found near there.
>
> 3. The Saddlebole scheduling is similarly on the basis of being a late
> medieval marker stone on the boundary between two parishes. There is no
> apparent connection between it and the mining or (possible) smelting in the
> area.
>
> 4. I have not got a copy of the scheduling notice for the Beacon but my
> recollection is that it was scheduled as a prehistoric mound.
>
> 5. The treatment works between West and Wood mines was scheduled on the
> basis of the, albeit limited, processing of cobalt on the site in the 1860s.
>
> 6. Now that these sites has been scheduled, let us hope that it deters the
> metal detectorists.
Hear hear
>
> Conclusion: 'Janet Neil' needs to check her facts a bit more carefully.
And could maybe abstain from slandering the NT when she seems to represent
the thieves and scoundrels who have ruined the archaeology of this area both
above and below ground.
Ian Cowburn
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