VBB
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Edited Jul 22, 2012, 09:17
Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 22, 2012, 09:04
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Getting in the spirit for the Olympics, please offer your 3 most embarrassing heritage offerings. Five categories (please state which when entering).
Facilities.
Statements.
Reports/ publications.
Interpretation.
Anything goes (television, radio, shop goods, postcards - anything at all).
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tomwatts
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 22, 2012, 16:44
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Heathcote's Museum, Birchover, Derbyshire........Never got to see it.
Supposed to display many finds from nearby Stanton Moor.......But the museum was forced to shut down, as all the exhibits got pinched...
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VBB
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 23, 2012, 06:41
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tomwatts wrote: Heathcote's Museum, Birchover, Derbyshire........Never got to see it.
Supposed to display many finds from nearby Stanton Moor.......But the museum was forced to shut down, as all the exhibits got pinched...
Blimey!
The person that suggested this proposed the Beeching cuts as their entry!
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 23, 2012, 12:13
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Legacy.
Sustainability.
Fund Streaming.
Avoidance of specifics.
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tjj
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Edited Jul 24, 2012, 09:07
Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 24, 2012, 09:04
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VBB wrote: Getting in the spirit for the Olympics, please offer your 3 most embarrassing heritage offerings. Five categories (please state which when entering).
Facilities.
Statements.
Reports/ publications.
Interpretation.
Anything goes (television, radio, shop goods, postcards - anything at all).
I think Stonehenge is the clear and obvious winner on this one ... though the medal should be a retrospective honour and perhaps more in keeping to make it Bronze rather than Gold.
Facilities = Stonehenge wins for it soulless car park and toilets built on top of the site of post holes. Not to mention the tacky gift shop.
Statements = too numerous to mention, along with all the 'false dawns' along the way to improvements.
Reports/Publications = (As above) definitely a clear, overall winner.
Interpretation = LOL! Your guess is as good as mine but that hasn't stopped numerous experts having a go.
Special award: I would give this to Rosemary Hill for her accessible account of Stonehenge published in 2008. Factual, informative, unjargonistic, and written in clear English. She can have the 'gold' if there is a spare going.
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Sanctuary
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 24, 2012, 11:32
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VBB wrote: Getting in the spirit for the Olympics, please offer your 3 most embarrassing heritage offerings. Five categories (please state which when entering).
Facilities.
Statements.
Reports/ publications.
Interpretation.
Anything goes (television, radio, shop goods, postcards - anything at all).
Interpretation for me winning the Wooden Spoon. That there was no blueprint for the construction of Silbury Hill...Jim Leary & David Field...The Story of Silbury Hill. I enjoyed the book immensely aside from that.
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tiompan
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 24, 2012, 12:33
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Interpretations are too numerous but a couple that come to mind that have since thankfully gone quite / disappeared .
1)Two undated , unexcavated anomalies at the Stonehenge cursus wrongfully attributed to being on the alignments of the midsummer sunset and sunrise then a further compounding of the errors by suggesting they were the terminals of a processional route requiring the procession to move at glacial speed to a yet another wrongly calculated “alignment”on the Heel Stone .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921
2) Cup marks on a possible capstone at Trefael that three astronomers believed to be representations of constellations . http://goddesschess.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/prehistoric-star-map-in-wales.html
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nigelswift
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Jul 24, 2012, 12:47
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Either human transport or glaciation.
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BuckyE
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Aug 04, 2012, 18:19
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"Anything goes (television, radio, shop goods, postcards - anything at all)."
Jimit's photography prize.
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GLADMAN
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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal
Aug 04, 2012, 18:27
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Anything 'reported' by the Daily Mail.......
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