Peak District Viking versus stone stacks

Peak District resident Stuart Cox is waging a personal battle on the social media phenomenon of building stone stacks at beauty spots.

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00:00and today we're up here kicking cairns over and then what i'm going to do is explain why these

00:13cairns don't open up in the environment number one

00:20this is an ancient wall our walls probably several hundred years old if not more

00:25it's also an ancient scheduled monument which is mantor hillford it's also a farmer's property

00:34for keeping livestock in so number two there do exist around here navigational cairns

00:42if you build these cairns and make them too big people get lost especially by the weather number

00:48three this is an excellent habitat for wildlife they live in the nooks and crannies you can see

00:53them here when you start dismantling them or stone stacks because they're not even cairns

01:01that's what you're destroying number four is erosion

01:07where stones have been removed the path becomes eroded especially if they're

01:11removed in large quantities look at this state somehow it's destroyed a lot of them

01:18you can see the wall here look that's where the wall was

01:27that's better