VBB, you say
"grouting… should not be dismissed until all the facts are known."
That's all we've ever asked.

"good honest people who simply want to do right"
Nearly all, yes. I bent over backwards from the start at the demo to stress that (to the extent that a drunk at the back started shouting, as he thought I was from EH).

"who simply want to do right after so many wrongs have been inflicted on Silbury by archaeologists."
… by correcting tunnelling by tunnelling a bigger tunnel!
On which planet does that make sense?
(A blue one, I suppose).

As you know, a long article in British Archaeology was dedicated to persuading people on a single point: that EH, as successors in title to the body that allowed Atkinson to cock up his tunnel and make inadequate notes had a MORAL DUTY to go back in and make good his omissions. Professor or not, that's the stupidest most obviously agenda-driven argument I ever heard.

Moss:
"The idea that Silbury and its surrounding landscape should be turned into a peepshow like Stonehenge does'nt bear thinking about."
What can I say? Read the minutes.