Peter, just so you know I welcome your comments and am happy to debate with you without it becoming a personal matter. I fully believe all viewpoints are valid and if you do not agree with the campaigners then it is we who have failed to get our message across properly.

I have a backlog of sites that are being destroyed as we speak, if I did not think Silbury was important I would not spend my time on the subject.

I can understand your point about needing to get this fixed ASAP but I'd suggest that if you held the purse strings on this project you would be very close to sacking the consultant by now - five years just to decide how to fix it is far too long - It's already cost £600k, how much will a repair/archaeology strategy cost? Is there not simply an option to fix it without any further archaeological intervention?