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Stonehenge Solstice: is there a risk?
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Littlestone
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Re: Stonehenge Solstice: is there a risk?
Jul 27, 2010, 10:46
Was at the British Museum yesterday (the ground floor Egyptian Gallery where the stone statues are). Next to each statue is a sign asking people not to touch the object; from memory it reads something along the lines of, Please don't touch the sculptures as touching them will eventually damage even the hardest stone.

I can remember when the Rosetta Stone was on open display at the BM with nothing between you and it - now it's in a glass case. I can also remember when you could walk round the Egyptian galleries with not that many people there - now it's heaving and you can barely see what's on display.

This is the crux of the matter. What may have been OK twenty or thirty years ago is not OK now - there are just too many of us and even the gentlest touch, multiplied by a factor of x, 'will eventually damage even the hardest stone'.
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