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Silbury's structural integrity

nigelswift Dec 5, 2007 11:30:03

Replying to jimit

They "turned down the suggestion"!!!!
That's a bit bare-faced isn't it since it was THEIR suggestion, in fact THEIR avowed intention that they defended like tigers"

How does it fit in with all they wrote to those who asked them to reconsider?

And with this -
English Heritage spokeswoman Helen Nesbitt said: "As part of the education and outreach work around the conservation project to stabilise Silbury Hill, English Heritage has worked with Avebury and Kennet Valley primary schools to create a time capsule for the Hill.

and this -
But hardcore earth lovers have disputed the burial on websites The Modern Antiquarian and Heritage Action, saying it isn't befitting for a modern item to be inserted.
English Heritage and the school have defended the ceremony saying it is the right of local people to leave their mark.

Rewriting history or what?!

nigelswift Dec 5, 2007 11:38:44

Replying to nigelswift

Oh, and before anyone starts saying I shouldn't be negative, this is a public body, financed by the taxpayer, publicly issuing taxpayer-financed porkies to the taxpayer.

By what possible measure is that not outrageous and not requiring a publicly announced correction by EH themselves?

Littlestone Dec 6, 2007 12:42:22

Replying to nigelswift

Rewriting history or what?!

Not as easy as it used to be - some of the Silbury-related comments posted on TMA for example go out as Google Silbury News Alerts and are read nationally and internationally. English Heritage will find it increasingly difficult to hide behind the sort of spin given out by Jim Leary and quoted in the last paragraph of yesterday's Guardian article by Maev Kennedy.*

Meanwhile, you are quite right to ask why a publicly announced correction by English Heritage themselves has not been released.

* http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2221939,00.html "They (English Heritage) turned down the suggestion of leaving a new time capsule: "We don't want to do anything that would encourage anyone to try and open the mound again," Jim Leary, the project director, said. "We hope that nobody will ever again follow in our footsteps." (italics mine).