We hope that the fortunate solution at Holmbury Hill will
be followed at Avebury and Lulworth, both of which are still in danger. Last Saturday the Times published a letter from Sir Hercules Read appealing for the preservation of the Avebury stones from too close an association with the wireless stations which it is pro- posed to build close by. The relics of the Stone Age in England are not too numerous, and we agree with Sir Hercules Read that it is amazing that in a civilized community any public body should propose to do injury to one of the most important and most ancient of the stone circles. At Lulworth the War Office wants to occupy nearly a thousand acres of the downs for a per- manent Tank Gunnery School. The district is a precious part of unspoiled England, and there would be something like devastation if the Tank School is really to be estab- lished there, and part of the coast and the sea below are to be marked off as a prohibited area. Surely in this case, too, there must be an alternative site.
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