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smallblueplanet Nov 28, 2005 19:01:20
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From the locked thread -
"We referred to it as a new tunnel because

First, EH's article in British Archaeology Jan 2005 [Appendix 5] said – "Atkinson's tunnel entrance would be re-opened and "a new tunnel constructed to the centre of the hill" "

From Britarch -
"Atkinson's tunnel entrance would be re-opened and a new tunnel constructed to the centre of the hill, <b>ideally wholly within the line of the original</b>. Then working outwards from the centre, the remaining collapse and infill material would be removed and all voids re-filled with properly compacted chalk."

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba80/feat1.shtml

Prefer to leave certain information out do you Mr Swift?

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 28, 2005 19:57:04
Replying to smallblueplanet

Boring.
The "ideal" was acknowledged as unachievable by the phrase "as far as possible".

Stop now. Each successive attempt to rewrite the record makes you look more foolish. I shouldn't have done as others, and not opened your post. I won't again.