[Stones] The Longman of Wilmington Abuse

[The Webmistress]

on 8/7/07 2:05 PM, The Webmistress wrote:

> on 8/7/07 1:40 PM, David Swindlehurst wrote:
> 
>> Please add your name if you feel such filming offends the pagan community or
>> is a threat to such hill figures on the grounds of conservation.
> 
> A petition stating that this monument is in any way pagan is - imo -
> misguided in that it gives the program a way of diverting attention away
> from what they did onto the possible historicity or otherwise of the Long
> Man.
> 
> Far better to concentrate entirely on the conservation/archaeological
> aspects of the case, along with the 'people could be encouraged to copy this
> behaviour' which are pretty much irrefutable.

And in fact, quoting this example may help the case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6281512.stm