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tiompan Feb 5, 2011 18:23:53
Replying to GLADMAN

GLADMAN wrote:
tiompan wrote:
I wouldn't consider Burl , a maverick .
I would consider anyone who devoted his life to studying prehistoric monuments a maverick - sure, he wasn't undisciplined in the true sense of a maverick, but it is certainly viewed as 'unorthodox' - that is, not normal - to devote your life to stone circles in today's society.
So Atkinson fits in with the others ?

L Littlestone
Littlestone Feb 5, 2011 18:39:20
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No, Atkinson left Silbury in a mess, and a lot of his ‘research’ there (and at Stonehenge) under his bed. Maverick is too good a word to describe the man.

G GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 5, 2011 19:06:24
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
GLADMAN wrote:
tiompan wrote:
I wouldn't consider Burl , a maverick .
I would consider anyone who devoted his life to studying prehistoric monuments a maverick - sure, he wasn't undisciplined in the true sense of a maverick, but it is certainly viewed as 'unorthodox' - that is, not normal - to devote your life to stone circles in today's society.
So Atkinson fits in with the others ?
Perhaps as a human being he would have - he was a conscientious objector, after all? But being thought of as a maverick within such an insular world as archeaology would probably mean all concerned needed to get out more.