Food!

I guess I'm quite lucky really. Living, as I do, in the English countryside.

Less 1 mile away from where I am presently sitting there is a shallow gorge

in a low ridge. This gorge has a number of caves running down either side and

in them have been found many interesting bones and more especially interesting, items 

that provide evidence of occupation by Neanderthals.

This is something that has caused great excitement, not just locally, but throughout the world.

 Learned persons from around the world have flocked to the site studying what is to be found there.

 Some have even written scholarly books about what has been found there. I have read a couple of these

 and they make for interesting reading, even if your enthusiasm for the subject of archaeology is mild.

 The place is well worth a visit. The visitors centre is actually interesting in itself...and the cafe is half-decent. (which helps)

However, as with all such things there is a "blot on the landscape" in the shape of an ugly great quarry not a half a mile from the site.

Apparently the stone they extract is special ( especially valuable ) in that is dolomitic limestone.