Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel

• Nighed@sffa.community ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What damage are you expecting?

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There could be countless archeological objects in the surrounding area. So digging for no good reason is a bad idea.

    Though I don’t know if any specific stability risk, the vibrations and disturbance from construction is a non zero (but probably low) risk to the stability of the site.

    Also roads create pollution, which in general should try to be kept as far as possible from natural or ancient archeological sites.

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    • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think a lot of money has been spent looking at the area to confirm there isn’t anything in its way - one of the other comments has a link about how everything was paused for 4 months when they did find something nearby.

      If they can dig a tube tunnel through some of the places in london that they did for crossrail, this isn’t going to be a problem.

      There is already an A-road there, one that is normally practically stationary due to how the road narrows there. by sticking it in a tunnel it saves the immediate area from the pollution. Hopefully as we electrify more vehicles that will get even better too.

      For reference - this is how close the road currently is - getting it underground will make the immediate area much nicer.

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    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And you expect them to carry on digging if they find invaluable archeological artefacts?

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No but they would have damaged the site

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• Nighed@sffa.community ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they dig under then it’s not a problem

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Much of the value of the site lies underground. It’s a rich archaeological site where significant discoveries are still being made. This is part of what makes it a World Heritage Site.

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    • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s on a big hill, the archeology isn’t going to be more than 10m deep right? The only issue will therefore be at the entrance and exit?

      I assume that they put the portals in ‘empty’ places and will have archeologists at the site to confirm they are not digging things up. (And have/are studying the area more)

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