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Littlestone L
Littlestone Oct 24, 2005 22:45:42
Replying to tuesday

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.

V VenerableBottyBurp
VenerableBottyBurp Oct 24, 2005 23:17:10
Replying to Littlestone

(in a Little Britain voice - the teenage girl from Bristol, sorry can't recall the name)

I so don't believe you just said that:

"No-one has ever come up with a reasonable (let alone logical) reason why this should not be done"

And all this and all that...

VBB

F FourWinds
FourWinds Oct 25, 2005 09:27:35
Replying to Littlestone

I have a very good reason. That money (and it would be a lot of money) would be better spent housing a lot of kids who are living rough on the streets of the towns of our so called civilised world.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 25, 2005 14:20:50
Replying to Littlestone

"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."

VBB does make some good points but on balance I tend to have the same feeling as you Littlestone.
How about a compromise - now that we know how effective foamhenge stones can be let's have an annual Avebury Stonefest when all the gaps are filled with models for a week? That way the "feeling" or at least different speculations about the feeling could be captured each year, but with zero damage or irrevokable mistakes.