§ 41. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the First Commissioner of Works whether he is aware that a steam-roller and a steam tar-spraying machine have been working on the battlefield of Culloden, and that the latter has been spraying tar which has spread on to the graves; and whether he will take steps to schedule this site as an ancient monument and so prevent such desecration?
§ The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)I understand that the carriage way was widened by the local authority two feet during March and April of this year, but, as the result of an inspection of the road yesterday by a member of the county surveyor's staff, the divisional road engineer of the Ministry of Transport has been informed that there is no evidence of tar having been sprayed outside the limits of the carriage way. Those portions of the battlefield known as the graves of the dead are already scheduled under the Ancient Monuments Act, and I can hardly believe that the highway authority would have done anything without the matter having been reported to me.