The problem with restoration, as Newgrange demonstrates so well, is that you end up with one man's vision of how the site looked at one particular time. I think it was Josh Pollard who, when asked about restoring Avebury, said something like, "Fine, let's restore it to the mesolithic." Who decides what state/period to restore it to? Should Stonehenge be returned to its earliest state of just a circular eathern bank? Afterall the structure we see today could be said to have been vandalism of the original monument by a later group of 'religious nutters'.

Avebury's fairly well protected and ain't going anywhere. Let's concentrate on some of the stuff that's truly under threat.