[hardy-l] archaeology

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Rebecca, I am indebted to you for your comprehensive reply to my query.

Nevertheless it saddens me deeply --- makes me profoundly regretful ; well 
might one say, with Hardy. that this is a life doomed to "unbe."

I think of hundreds of years, thousands of years of ancient cultural 
heritage, of Bronze Age barrows submerged but still almost intact   -- 
after aeons! -- beneath the earth of our "wold" Dorset Ridgeways, and then 
of pounding, polluting motorway traffic on its way back and forth with 
truckloads of consumer products for the Safeways and filling stations of 
Weymouth, or of tourists and Olympiads soon to forgotten in the mists of 
time --taking precedence over our ancient heritage from ages past, and I 
can only think what a thoroughly dyspeptic old Dodo I have become.
  Cheers
Rosemarie

>Rosemarie, in light of your last - I think the finds will be preserved, 
>but probably not the site.  Leading Oxford archaeologist, David Score, is 
>quoted as saying:
>
>"We take everything back to Oxford where we wash it, clean it and label it 
>and our specialists examine the finds and look at the relationship between 
>the different finds.
>
>The 24 museum article seems to suggest that there have been more finds 
>this year, including a Roman burial within a Round barrow ..
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Rebecca