29th January 2009, 05:31 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Dirty Dave Lincoln
Hi there,
"Heritage in danger"
As a broad subject would this include standing heritage (buildings,castles,Stonehenge etc) as well as sites that have been uncovered in the past and left as such for the public to view? has anyone done a study of such sites in the urban setting to determine their deteriation from air pollution,vandalism etc?
I would have thought that there would be many such sites in danger of degredation, if not collapse due to neglect over the years.
Hi there,
yes this is a broad subject and needs pinning down. really we are just talking about the impact on heritage from development, usually large-scale infrastructural. You are right in that this may affect the amenity value of upstanding archaeology by impacting on the wider environs of a monument or building, but unlike the buried archaeology, it is unlikely to erase all physical presence of that monument unless the planners are from the Taliban. We're talking about what we destroy in order to bring about the future.