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fachtna wrote: Good afternoon tjj - a happy coincidence indeed ... and perhaps a harbinger of things to come? I look forward to getting the book from Amazon - perhaps on Monday. Having been the archaeological manager of the Silbury Project for English Heritage for 7 years I would have hoped to have received a copy a little earlier ie from English Heritage itself, as a matter of common courtesy. Even after all that has happened I am still slightly surprised and disappointed that none of the managers in English Heritage could bring themselves to do this. fachtna I'm sad to hear about the manner in which the English Heritage management team have treated you Fachtna. I hope the book itself doesn't disappoint, it looks excellent plus there are some wonderful illustrations and photographs in it. This poem is at the front ... For a monument at Silbury Hill This mound in some remote and dateless day Rear’d o’er a Chieftain of the Age of Hills, May here detain thee Traveller! from thy road Not idly lingering. In his narrow house Some warrior sleeps below: his gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The Bard has harp’d, but perished is the song Of praise, as o’er these bleak and barren downs The wind that passes and is heard no more. Go traveller on thy way, and contemplate Glory’s brief pageant, and remember then That one good turn was never wrought in vain. Robert Southey, 1797 with best wishes tjj (june) Reply | with quote |  9th October 2010ce 17:32 In reply to: Re: The Story of Silbury Hill - Paperback (fachtna) |
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