Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

  • turdas@suppo.fiEnglish
    23418·
    12 hours ago

    Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

    But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn’t run through it.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2113·
      12 hours ago

      You only have to lay a cable down once and it’ll work for however many decades. People trudging through on a regular basis to leave rocks would be an ongoing concern.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        233·
        7 hours ago

        This assumes a lot of things about the installation and longevity of the cable and its jacket, and forgets that some of these things have been so magnetically interfering to their surroundings that sharks have bitten them.