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A sad erosion of evidence
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SOME OF OUR MOST significant architectural heritage could be
history, as they say. Coastal erosion, exacerbated by global climate
change and allied to inadequate funding for conservation measures,
means that some of our earliest historical fabric is in danger of
crumbling into the sea.
The elements have been responsible in the past for uncovering
sites such as the famous neolithic village of Skara Brae in Orkney,
uncovered by a storm in the 1850s. But what the sea giveth, it just
as easily taketh away, as Mark Stephen discovers when he visits
Orkney in Fresh Air on Wednesday (Radio Scotland, ...
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