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Re: A Puzzle.
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I do wonder if this will be the last intervention in my lifetime, especially if they do use probes.



English Heritage mention in their last update that a geo-electrical cable will be left in the structure. On Page 3, Fig.10 in Update 25 at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17511 you can see the cable to the right of the guy kneeling down, with the spoil from the newly-cut trench in which it lies shown heaped up on both sides. If this new trench runs the length of the tunnel (85 metres) the material cut for the cable would be the region of 20-30 cubic metres!

Question is, why such a big trench for such a thin cable? If the trench is going to be filled how is the cable going to be winched out? It's not possible... unless the cable is protected top and sides with something else. The trench may also have been made so big to accommodate something as well as the cable - a probe like the Rovver that EH have already used at Silbury for example.

Again, we don't know because English Heritage are not giving out any information to the public on these issues.


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
29th November 2007ce
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