GLADMAN
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 17, 2011, 21:58
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In this respect check out what can happen when an allegedly upstanding landowner is allowed to care for a priceless monument, something clearly well beyond his comprehension. No doubt he will see nothing wrong at all.....
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_small/97285.jpg
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GLADMAN
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 17, 2011, 22:09
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Bloody link.... Tordarroch, by the way.
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moss
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 18, 2011, 06:51
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GLADMAN wrote: Bloody link.... Tordarroch, by the way.
What you do is go to the photo, and underneath in red are comments/permalink. Hit the permalink and pick up link and it should work..
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/97285/tordarroch.html
Though we both have the same link, but yours has 'small' in it - strange, and yes the cattle have chewed up the ground at Tordarroch as well.
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StoneGloves
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 18, 2011, 13:19
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Yes, that's appalling. Often when animals are poorly attended they are also cruelly treated. What a lovely stone circle!
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GLADMAN
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 18, 2011, 14:33
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StoneGloves wrote: Yes, that's appalling. Often when animals are poorly attended they are also cruelly treated. What a lovely stone circle!
That damage is actually within the circle.... (there's an orthostat behind the camera beyond a fence). By the way, thanks Moss for sorting out the link.
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moss
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Edited Jun 24, 2011, 07:59
Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 24, 2011, 06:54
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It's good news day English Heritage is to take Action on this issue....
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Video-footage-prompts-action-protect-stones/story-12819075-detail/story.html
though it will take time sadly.
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nigelswift
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 24, 2011, 07:02
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So they'll take action against bovines but not boneheads eh?
;)
(Sorry)
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Rhiannon
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 24, 2011, 08:07
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Cows can't help being itchy, surely it wasn't beyond the whit of whoever let them be put there to predict they'd use the stones to scratch against? Have people not heard of fences in Cornwall? I admit it's not very aesthetically appealing to have a barbed wire ring round the stones, but otherwise cattle will do what they do. Or is that too much like stating the bleedin obvious. It's reminiscent of Priddy as an example of the landowner just not giving a rats arse. I know we live in a little bubble here of caring about something that barely impinges on the rest of the country's consciousness, but you would think that if something was on your land, you might actually care about where you lived, and not want it ruined. Clearly not.
If EH show both these examples up (and actually communicate the consequences to other people with sites on their land) then that would be a Good Thing though.
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StoneGloves
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 24, 2011, 11:43
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Take action - maybe! The cows look pretty rough - I'll bet the farmer does too. They're easily herded - two peple - perhaps someone on here could drive them elsewhere - reopen a droving road, maybe.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Wretched longhorn cattle
Jun 26, 2011, 13:33
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Was at Tregeseal a week or so ago. Haven't had chance to compare new pics with previous years to look for "leans". The whole area around the circle is now covered in cowpats. We didn't get up to the holed stones this time, but I have to say that the stones alleged to have been broken by the cows were previous breaks that had been cemented back together quite crudely.
The EH intervention got a big write-up in the Cornishman (the local paper) too, which was good to see.
Craig Weatherhill and Ian Cooke* have been warning about this ever since the "Heathland Project" was introduced, shame it's taken video evidence being posted on youtube to make anyone pay attention. Sadly Natural England appear to be very obdurate and will not compromise their scheme.
We visited a number of sites that CASPN take responsibility for keeping clear (Mulfra courtyard houses for example), which highlight a much better way of protecting the monuments from vegetation. I noted that a small area of heather and gorse just north of Treen Common enclosure has been burnt back as well, which has always provided another option to grazing.
*Craig and Ian have written extremely informative books about the monuments of West Penwith, which remain by far the most useful guides for the area.
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