Oh Noes! Bronze age find on Airport road.

mike65

See the Waterford Today front page? The discovery was a while back which may explain the speed to work but what if they end up doing a big dig?

Mike.

Bards

mike65 wrote:

See the Waterford Today front page? The discovery was a while back which may explain the speed to work but what if they end up doing a big dig?

Mike.

The one good thing about this is the fact that the road is in County Waterford, and Mr McCann will not travel down to Dungarvan to lodge an objection to the road....

Sully

Bards wrote:

The one good thing about this is the fact that the road is in County Waterford, and Mr McCann will not travel down to Dungarvan to lodge an objection to the road....

Ill have you know young Sir that Mr McAnn has the full support of the people.

:P

paul666

That sir we shall find out tomorrow

Roen

He'd be knackered from the cycle, he may have to fume over it from the ivory tower he lives in.

Cabaal

whats wrong with this country?
its seen as a bad thing when we find anything of historical value?
:rolleyes:

dougal

Cabaal wrote:

whats wrong with this country?
its seen as a bad thing when we find anything of historical value?
:rolleyes:

Lucky we keep building roads or we would never find anything!

neon_glows

well i dunno, would be nice to dig up some very old non useful things but sooner its over and done with and we can expand the airport the better, imagine the econmic effects a larger airport can have which could land 747s etc on it.

Sully

Whats the story with that road - its been closed the last while for "essentail repairs"? Last time I drove out (whilst it was closed) they had just dug up segments of the road and covered it with gravel?

mike65

I dunno, but for some reason I can't spot they have been relaying sections on most roundabouts on the ORR. Anyone got some inside info?

Mike.

Sully

mike65 wrote:

I dunno, but for some reason I can't spot they have been relaying sections on most roundabouts on the ORR. Anyone got some inside info?

Mike.

Ya dunno what the story there is, and they are working late enough doing it to.

merlante

It would be one thing if we were digging up Nephertitis left right and centre, but all these projects are being halted by finds like urns and pots, etc. All very interesting up to a point. Sooner or later you have to cut the living a break and let them build some ****.

Cabaal

merlante wrote:

It would be one thing if we were digging up Nephertitis left right and centre, but all these projects are being halted by finds like urns and pots, etc. All very interesting up to a point. Sooner or later you have to cut the living a break and let them build some ****.

I'm sure that was the argument for Dublin CoCo in the 70't when they built their new offices

merlante

Cabaal wrote:

I'm sure that was the argument for Dublin CoCo in the 70't when they built their new offices

Are you one of these people that don't get that things are relative, not black and white? You cannot even begin to compare the destruction of Wood Quay with trampelling over a few urns on an insignificant site.

The fact is, I could probably find a few bronze age trinkets if I dug up my back garden, but that shouldn't mean that I can't do anything with my garden. There has to be some balance to all this.

I am delighted that we are all in favour of protecting historic structures and in excavating along the route of construction projects. What I am not so delighted about is that even when there is no trace of something whatsoever about the ground, and nothing that would look in any way interesting if it wasn't completely reconstructed, we still find it impossible to be able to build a bloody road in this state. Now, in exceptional cases, such as Wood Quay and the Viking find in Waterford, allowances should be/have been made for the significance of the finds BUT most sites aren't anywhere near as significant.

I am a big fan of history and archaeology, but I am also a big fan of doing things that make people's lives easier. Things like roads, when they are warranted, not only increase people's quality of life, but they save lives too. For every hold up for every silly little site found along the roate of every road in Ireland, lives are lost. Lives are lost because the old roads are more dangerous and because the emergency services are hindered and take more time to reach their destinations. We have to have some balance.