nigelswift wrote: "my own approach is that i would not touch or remove anything that looks like an offering or token left by another person - whatever my personal feelings towards the object. Simply, i do not consider i have the right to interfere"
.... except with sites.
And, taken to its conclusion, in a few decades we will have some amazing new cairns built over the sites of prehistoric monuments, made out of pottery cows, plastic toys and beer cans. The archaeologists of the future will no doubt be amazed.
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