§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made in dealing with the problem of damage by visitors to the cup and ring marks at Roughtinglinn, Northumberland, about which the Under-Secretary of State wrote to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed on 17 January 1977.
§ Mr. MarksThe Department has agreed to fence the site and to put up a notice warning visitors that it is an offence to injure or deface the monument. The work will be done as soon as consultations with the owners about future maintenance of the fence are satisfactorily completed.