If I had my way tuesday all the (known) buried stones in the Avebury complex would be re-erected and an on-going program of locating and re-erecting other stones initiated. No-one has ever come up with a reasonable (let alone logical) reason why this should not be done though you will hear various twaddle about maintaining Avebury's 'present integrity' (sadly an argument held by Mike Pitts who I otherwise like and respect).

The Avebury complex is a National Treasure and should be treated as such - sadly politics and (lack of) finances get in the way.

I watched the news today oh dear... our world is what we make of it and what we are presently making of it is conflict and division - not beauty and understanding.

The idea of Mike Pitts re-erecting a stone is still on-going, but there are huge quantities of red tape, planning and smc stuff, to get past/passed!

Forget about Agebury for a while ...

While I was waiting for the moon to burn through the rainclouds at the weekend I kicked moss off several buried stones at Thurstones. The bank of rubble protects them but they stick out the top. None of them are a hundred tonnes but one could be seven or eight - pretty big for Bolton.

Also found a 'ceremonial hill' named Toothill, in Halliwell, with a crecentish-shape. Clear view of the SSE horizon (still). Houses on three sides. It's one of the reputed sites of the Knights Hospitallers' infirmary - the other is a quarter mile away, at Holy (H)arbour.