And while we're at it, this may be of interest, from the Guardian
newspaper on Monday:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/08/archaeologists-greenham-sc
ience-politics
Archaeologists dig into Greenham peace camp
Martin Wainwright
The Guardian, Monday December 8 2008
They may not rank with the Pyramids or Sutton Hoo, but the traces of one
Britain's best-known protest camps are being sifted by a team of
archaeologists.
More than 600 artefacts have been catalogued at the skeletal remnants of
Turquoise Gate camp, Greenham Common, as part of a project to tell the
"full story" about the women's anti-nuclear campaign 25 years ago.
Scouring woodland and scrub near the old cruise missile bunkers, which
themselves have been given scheduled historic monument status, a team
from Southampton University and English Heritage has already rewritten
minor parts of history. One of the major finds at Turquoise, set up as a
vegan offshoot from the large camp at nearby Blue Gate, has been a
"significant number" of milk bottles. John Schofield, of English
Heritage, who reports the survey results in the latest issue of British
Archaeology magazine, says: "Were the women really all vegan, were they
re-using old bottles, or were there children on site who needed milk?"
Such issues are now being raised with veterans of the camp, some of whom
acted as advisers on the dig and helped to rediscover a forgotten
outpost of the protest. This was the previously unrecorded Emerald Gate
camp, where a few women directly monitored Gama - the Ground-launched
missiles Alert and Maintenance Area - the other side of the base's
famous fence.
Sefryn Penrose
Heritage Consultant
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