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I believe there are people out there in the ether who find all the romanticism and panglossian caricatures of the old ancestors a bit nauseating in the first place. They would argue that it's as apporpriate as future followers of the Smorgasbord Trinity Cult leaving boiled sheep ears on the ruins of Old Trafford. In Newgrange, for example, they do not allow ceremonies even, as to do so may imply that people of a certain persuasion today have more of a claim to the site than anyone else when such a continuity simply does not exist.
Brilliant! And brings us neatly back to English Heritage's nauseating idea of a 21st century time capsule buried in Silbury (just after they've finished 'conserving' it).

Littlestone wrote:
Brilliant! And brings us neatly back to English Heritage's nauseating idea of a 21st century time capsule buried in Silbury (just after they've finished 'conserving' it).
An admission that the guy they uphold as a shining figure, Mr Atkinson, brought the conservation about because he screwed the job badly the first time would be welcome too. The earlier tunnellers share some responsibility, but they were not in possession of the equipment and 20th century knowhow, and there was no evidence of any subsidence before 1969.