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VBB Jan 24, 2013 09:55:22
Replying to Mustard

Mustard wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Just sort of moving on a bit, assuming that the Sanctuary is now pretty well dug to extinction with little or anything more to gain from it, would you like to see it re-instated with new stones to give it a similar look to that of Aubreys days to make it more visually satisfying?
Based on the above assumption, then yes.
Big assumption there, it isn't dug to extinction, but to play the game anyway:

Removal of concrete pods - yes, a hologram that appears from my watch phone that reveals what it might have been like - yes, a handful of tma-ers wanting to fake prehistory - no!

Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!

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VBB Jan 24, 2013 09:56:22
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VBB wrote:
Mustard wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Just sort of moving on a bit, assuming that the Sanctuary is now pretty well dug to extinction with little or anything more to gain from it, would you like to see it re-instated with new stones to give it a similar look to that of Aubreys days to make it more visually satisfying?
Based on the above assumption, then yes.
Big assumption there, it isn't dug to extinction, but to play the game anyway:

Removal of concrete pods - yes, a hologram that appears from my watch phone that reveals what it might have been like - yes, a handful of tma-ers wanting to fake prehistory - no!

Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!

Contributed merely to stop the endless 'you-said-I said' above - pointless!

M Mustard
Mustard Jan 24, 2013 10:11:39
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VBB wrote:
a handful of tma-ers wanting to fake prehistory - no!
I don't see how "faking" it in THIS particular context is in any way worse than a bunch of concrete slabs in a field.

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moss Jan 24, 2013 10:30:15
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"Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!"

Not sure if this right but didn't Piggott 'restore' Wayland's Smithy? To be quite honest I'm sitting on the fence about restoration of Avebury, and can see the problems with concrete bollards, but there again going to Woodhenge - impossible to restore of course - but the 'sense' of its presence was still there and the sad grave of the little prehistoric child in its centre gave credence to its history.

Edit; Ruskin has probably written more on any subject concerning art than most people, but admiring the rocky slopes of the alps or the architecture of Venice hardly makes him the expert on megaliths;)

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harestonesdown Jan 24, 2013 16:39:44
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VBB wrote:
Mustard wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Just sort of moving on a bit, assuming that the Sanctuary is now pretty well dug to extinction with little or anything more to gain from it, would you like to see it re-instated with new stones to give it a similar look to that of Aubreys days to make it more visually satisfying?
Based on the above assumption, then yes.
Big assumption there, it isn't dug to extinction, but to play the game anyway:

Removal of concrete pods - yes, a hologram that appears from my watch phone that reveals what it might have been like - yes, a handful of tma-ers wanting to fake prehistory - no!

Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!

Nope, leave the sanctuary as it is, unless proof can be found that those wall stones definitely came from there, then i'd have no objection to them being reinstated, but "new" stones for a reconstruction ? Not for me thanks. :)