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It's up (wos it something we said :-)

They don't seem to be sure whether to spell update as update or Update... nah, that's just being petty.

In EH's defence [get this on camera, it will only happen once] I would say that we have to remember that this is not strictly speaking an archaeological excavation, but a repair job to fix the mess left behind by the last one, and as such there will be little new stuff to talk about, most of the work having been documented in 69. Okay, we get better pictures and maybe more up-to-date explanations, but being as they are repairing the damage left by one of their own, I wouldn't expect too many comments from them.

In fact, the archaeological work seems to be more along the lines of working out which fall was from which tunnel, rather than anything constructive in the hill itself.

Right, they've seen my once-in-a-lifetime nice side, I'm back to normal now!

Another 2 page article - A half page of text with the same diagram *again*, and the other with a couple of poor photos.

These have firstly collapsed into the Merewether tunnel and the
‘man-hole’ and then spilled down into the Atkinson tunnel after the removal of the roadstone.
So, am I reading this right? They're taking out the old infill (roadstone), and the hill is collapsing in on top of them as they're pulling it out?

Sounds very dangerous to me! How do they intend filling the obvious voids that will be left over their heads when the time comes to fill?

Are there any obvious external signs of further collapse on the surface since they've started tunnellling? Or is it all covered up by the monorail and associated works?

2 pages a week really isn't sufficient at this stage for those of us that can't get down there to the visitor centre to see for ourselves what's going on!

I know you shouldn't anthropomorphise inanimate objects (they don't like it when you do that), but I wouldn't mind betting that the Hill is suffering at the moment...