Exploring the Inexplicable? | Archaeologists Discuss Felling of Sycamore Gap Tree – 7th Oct 2023
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0:00 Introduction
2:45 Sycamore Gap Tree Felling
6:17 Reaction to the Felling
11:11 Broader Significance of Trees
15:05 Collective Ownership of Heritage
21:12 Judgement, Loss & Landscape
26:08 An Opportunity for Understanding?
27:56 Lessons: The Public & Imagination
35:00 What Next for Sycamore Gap?
36:55 Support Us on Patreon
37:40 The Curious Case of ‘Stoneman Willie’!
40:38 The Culture of Embalming…
41:58 Respectful or Exploitation?
50:52 A Cultural/ Traditional Interpretation?
55:35 Conclusions
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Sycamore Gap tree: The story so far:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66994729
Kids share their thoughts on the Sycamore Gap:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/67010900
The felled Sycamore Gap tree may rise again:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/06/the-felled-sycamore-gap-tree-may-rise-again
Sycamore Gap tree mystery continues as lawyer maps out the steps the police could take:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1820792/sycamore-gap-tree-felling-spt
Sycamore Gap: Hadrian's Wall damage found after tree cut down:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-67015699
Home-made memorial risks damage to Hadrian's Wall:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/jan/11/hadrianswall-nationaltrust-englishheritage-sycamoregap
Man ‘devastated’ after National Trust remove sapling he planted to replace Sycamore Gap:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/man-devastated-after-national-trust-remove-sapling-he-planted-to-replace-sycamore-gap/ar-AA1hzmg8
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Pennsylvania mummy known as 'Stoneman Willie' identified after 128 years of mystery:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/reading-pennsylvania-mummy-stoneman-willie-identified-after-128-years/story?id=103718137
RIP Stoneman Willie: US mummy to be buried after 128 years:
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2023/1007/1409498-stoneman-willie/
The American Way of Death:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death