Archaeologists are in a desperate 戦う/戦い to save a historic Pictish hillfort from the Scottish 政府's '炭素-offsetting' woodland 計画/陰謀

  • 専門家s say a '炭素-offsetting' 計画/陰謀 would 損失 archaeological?場所/位置s?
  • 計画(する)s to 工場/植物 500 acres in Aberdeenshire could 損失 the 場所/位置 of a Pictish fort

The 場所/位置 of an 課すing Pictish hillfort is at the centre of a modern day 戦う/戦い between archaeologists and those behind a '炭素-offsetting' woodland 計画/陰謀.

専門家s say they have only just scratched the surface in 熟考する/考慮するing the area of 'international significance' in Aberdeenshire.

They 恐れる 未来 発見s will be 妥協d under a Scottish 政府 計画(する) to cover 21 per cent of the country in woodland within the next 10年間.

Treeline 植林学 限られた/立憲的な, on に代わって of landowner Taylors 産業の Services, wants to 工場/植物 trees on 500 acres of 農地 at Mains of Rhynie, which sits within an area that was an エリート Pictish centre from the 4th to 6th centuries.

Archaeologist Professor Gordon Noble, of Aberdeen University, branded it 'akin to 示唆するing 類似の afforestation 計画/陰謀s next to Stonehenge or the (犯罪の)一味 of Brodgar'.

Plans to plant 500 acres on farmland at Mains of Rhynie could hinder efforts to study the Tap o'Noth Pictish hillort, archaeologists said

計画(する)s to 工場/植物 500 acres on 農地 at Mains of Rhynie could 妨げる e fforts to 熟考する/考慮する the Tap o'Noth Pictish hillort, archaeologists said

He 追加するd: 'I can think of no landscape やめる like Rhynie ーに関して/ーの点でs of illuminating 早期に 中世 northern Britain ? a pivotal period in the 形式 of Scotland today.'

Archaeologists said in 2020 that they believed 4,000 people may have lived in more than 800 huts at the Tap o' Noth hillfort 1,847ft above sea level.

In his 反対 to the forest 計画/陰謀, Professor Noble said 工場/植物ing was '高度に likely to 意味ありげに 損失 archaeological features'.

He wrote: 'Once 工場/植物d, the root depth of all major 種類 示唆するs that any buried archaeology would be 意味ありげに 妥協d.'

Archaeologists have been carrying out 広範囲にわたる 穴掘りs in the area since 2011 and Professor Noble said there was 証拠 of an 広範囲にわたる Pictish 共同墓地 on the 辛勝する/優位 of the village that 延長するd into the Mains of Rhynie fields.

Archaeologists believe a Pictish cemetry may have extended into the fields in Mains of Rhynie that lie around the site of the Tap o'Noth hillfort

?Archaeologists believe a Pictish cem etry may have 延長するd into the fields in Mains of Rhynie that 嘘(をつく) around the 場所/位置 of the Tap o'Noth hillfort?

A 広報担当者 for Treeline 植林学 限られた/立憲的な yesterday said it would be 不適切な to comment as the 計画(する)s were now 存在 considered by 植林学 Scotland.

The 使用/適用 has 原因(となる)d 怒り/怒る in the 地元の community.

Mains of Rhynie 活動/戦闘 group 選挙運動者 Kate Beverly said: '現在のd as a multi-機能の 'woodland 創造' to help 会合,会う 逮捕する 無 的s through 炭素 sequestration, this 提案 is, in reality, an exploitative 商売/仕事 投機・賭ける, 積極的な in its 範囲 and 規模 and insensitive to community, 野性生物 and archaeology.'

A Scottish 植林学 広報担当者 said: 'At this 行う/開催する/段階 we have taken no 決定/判定勝ち(する) or 表明するd a 見解(をとる).'

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