This place resonates with the title as the scene of community action over concerns over the impact the quarry could have on the village, wildlife and the problems associated with increased traffic, as well as the visual impact in the pretty village and its neighbouring Roman fort -Alavna Veniconvm.
The planning application mirrored that of the Gillies Hill site in Stirling. Their similarity goes further with the concerns expressed by the community in Cambusbarron and Stirling over lorry movements, the historical links and the possible impact on wildlife. However, to minimise this impact, Included in the conditions are for three years of extraction; for a bond to be put in place as security to reinstate the land; for a restoration plan and five years of aftercare for the land, for workings only from Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 5pm, and for no blasting to take place.
Tiberius, like many of the Roman Emperors, ruled from AD 14 TO AD 37. He was a strange sort of creature who today would be locked away from society as being a positive danger. The sort of person to grind you down! However, as part of the job, he wanted to broaden the scope of Empire by widening the land mass and issued the appropriate orders. These instructions led to the invasion of the country now called Britain. However, he did not live to see the outcome. After years of debauchery he died as a result of asphyxiation brought on by being smothered with a pillow administered by a close and trusted subordinate!
His place as Emperor was taken by his nephew, the attractive, but psychopathic, Gaius Caligula (little boots). He didnt visit scotland One of Caligula’s crowning achievements was to appoint his favourite horse, Incatatus, (complete with marble stall), to a position in the Senate, and even considered the horse for a Consulship! However, Caligula’s reign was short, brutish and nasty, and he met an untimely, but well deserved, passage to Valhalla at the point of a spear!