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Re: Silbury updates
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moss wrote:
Week 8 update has arrived with a rather interesting alluvial layer on the original neolithic surface....

http://www.english-heritage.or[...]b_update_08_20070709134949.pdf


"Finds from the 1969 tunnel backfill include drinks bottles, a junction box and a plumb-bob."

Appalling though these finds are (and what a damning indictment of irresponsibility on those involved in the Atkinson/BBC tunnel of 1968 that such detritus should ever have been left inside Silbury!) at least we now have a modicum of openness by English Heritage on the 20th century rubbish that was left in this world famous structure.

Also good to at last see the weekly updates becoming a little more professional in both detail and presentation - though sadly still lacking in volume. Twice as much information would still not be enough. We expect to see that information now English Heritage, not squirreled away so someone in one of your departments can write a fancy paper (at our expense) with it in six month's time.


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
9th July 2007ce
21:27

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