Buried stones at Avebury.

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moss M
moss Jun 30, 2006 06:27:15
Replying to Littlestone

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Retrieving information (and splitting hairs) ; the fragment of bluestone was lost from the top of Silbury Hill, due presumably to carelessness, this could have been a vital piece of information in establishing relationships between types of stones used at Stonehenge and dates, therefore it is prudent to be very careful when re-erecting the stones at Avebury that the information recorded from the sockets is the best - could you guarantee that....
new technology in whatever field is coming along all the time. The visuality(or artistic spirit lifting) of the stones maybe comes second to the knowledge acquired. Think how frustrated we all are about Silbury Hill and Stonehenge because of inadequate archaeology..

*quotes; got completely muddled when there seems to be double quotes in the text, think I shall use cut and paste!

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jun 30, 2006 06:37:05
Replying to moss

...new technology in whatever field is coming along all the time.
I've argued this point before, moss. We do not get from point B in the future from point A in the past by magic. Advances in archaeology, conservation, medicine or whatever are made by the stumbling (often incompetent from our point of view) attempts of pioneers. I agree with you however that it is always wise to be prudent but we will not get anywhere by doing nothing.