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Silbury Hill

Digging Silbury

Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Oct 10, 2006 19:00:36
Replying to Pete G

Maybe a coin isn't quite the same as a deliberately carved lintel! I think the archaeologists of the future will like your coin. I like to think of that doorway being buried unseen inside Silbury though, very weird.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 10, 2006 19:06:21
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
Maybe a coin isn't quite the same as a deliberately carved lintel! I think the archaeologists of the future will like your coin. I like to think of that doorway being buried unseen inside Silbury though, very weird.
I agree, perhaps not the most important issue in this whole sad saga but let's hope the removal of the 1968 plaque (that looks like something you'd find over a railway tunnel) will be the first thing done towards, "... returning Silbury Hill as near to its original state as can be practicably achieved."* Wouldn't mind betting though that someone will argue it's part of Silbury's history (expletive).

* "Skanska have posted a detailed notice at the site, announcing their aim to re-enter these explorations and properly backfill them with chalk with the hope of returning Silbury Hill as near to its original state as can be practicably achieved."

P Pete G
Pete G Oct 10, 2006 22:49:41
Replying to Rhiannon

unfortunatley by the time the second and 3rd stones were filled in the students cottened on to what I was doing and decided to throw all their loose change in....
Something for future metal detectorists to find;)
PeteG

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