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Stonehenge Solstice: is there a risk?
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Re: Stonehenge Solstice: is there a risk?
Jul 19, 2010, 14:54
Littlestone wrote:
Exactly. Millions of visitors a year represent a much greater risk than 20,000 once a year at the summer solstice.


What!?

The millions of visitors a year are not allowed access to the stones - they are kept behind a cordon. The 20,000 (variable) visitors at solstice are allowed access to the stones and, as we have seen, are not adverse to climbing on them.

So you don't think the pressure of 1,000,000 visitors a year represents any risk to the monument? But one person a year climbing on a lintel is an imminent threat? Some proportionality really is in order here. If conservation was our absolute and only concern, we'd be advocating zero access to Stonehenge and its entire environment.
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