The South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership
held a morning introduction to monitoring and recording ‘at risk’ monuments in
our landscape today.
Many of our monuments are being de-scheduled
by Historic England at the moment, which means that it is important that
volunteers go out and monitor the state of our many round and long barrows,
hillforts and stone circles for example and record any problems. This may
include animal burrows, natural erosion, stock erosion (through grazing or just
trampling) or anything that has an impact on the monument.
The project is running until July 2018
and the SDRLP are looking to have the first six month results starting now and
hope that monitoring can continue after that with extra funding. All the
paperwork needed to do the recording will be sent to us, including maps.
It is suggested that DDCAG could take on
an area and monitor it over the six months and this area will be sent to me
very soon, so if anyone wants to be put on a rota please get in touch. We can
then have a meeting of the volunteers and go through the process and paperwork.
This is an important project for us to be involved in, especially for those
that cannot or don’t want to dig. The only criteria are to be able to walk in
the landscape and not mind getting a bit muddy!
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