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theargus.co.uk/news News The Argus, Monday, May 21, 2012 9
HERITAGE campaigners fear
cabling for a new windfarm could
wreck an important archaeologicalsite.
The cross dyke at Tottington Mount,near Upper Beeding, dates
back as faras 2000BC.
Energy giant E.ON wants to digunder the Bronze Age monument
forcabling to connect the proposed off-shore Rampion windfarm to
theNational Grid.
The cable will go through the SouthDownsNational Park toconnect
the195turbines off the Sussex coast betweenBrighton and Newhaven to
an electric-ity connection at Bolney.
E.ON said the cable could not avoid
the monument due to steep slopes oneither side of the site.But
conservationists are demanding
thecablebe reroutedawayfromthepro-tected monument
altogether.
Steve Ankers, a planning officer for
the South Downs Society, said: If thecable wassituated further
east it wouldavoid the national park altogether.
The cross dyke is one of the mostsensitive parts of the route
and theplans do not recognise the archaeologi-cal importance of the
whole nationalpark area.
Chris Todd, from Brighton and HoveFriendsof theEarth,said he
wasscep-tical of the need for the cable route togo through the
ancient monument.
He said: E.ON needs to appreciatetheneedto valueheritage
andprotect it
where possible.It seems odd that it requires an 8.7-
mile cable route through the nationalpark at a point where it is
only two tothree miles wide.
Mr Todd said a 12-week public con-
sultation, whichconcludedlast Sunday,was unsatisfactory as no
Environ-mental Impact Assessment was pub-lished.
E.ONis nowin discussions withEng-lish Heritage over the
TottingtonMountsite.
Thesite is a Scheduled Ancient Mon-ument which requires a
recommenda-tion by the conservation body to thegovernment before
work can be carriedout.
English Heritage experts believe thesite contains buried
archaeologicalremains.
A spokesman said: Very few havesurvived to the present day and
henceall well-preserved examples are consid-ered to be of national
importance.
Victoria Blake, from E.ON, said:
Weare doing everything we can to ensurethe cable crosses in an
acceptable wayand has minimum impact on the area.
The disturbance should be as littleas possible.
Cabling threat toancient monumentFear that historic remainswill
be lost
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CABLE TIES: Energy company E.ON wants toinstall an underground
cable through a BronzeAge cross dyke monument at Tottington
Mount
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