Silbury Hill 180
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Silbury Hill

Aliens at Avebury

Just watched the little film - very good I thought. The introduction with Silbury covered in snow and shrouded in mist captured the mystical quality of the site.
Well done Heritage Action for your efforts in calling English Heritage to account - they now appear to be articulate and open about the progess of the on-going work. There is no doubting it must have seemed a daunting task at the outset - however much expertise was, or was not, at their disposal.
(By clicking on 'email to a friend' you can enlarge the film to almost full screen)

June

What's also interesting is that the film features Fachtna MacAvoy so much. From what I'm given understand, he left the project some time ago now, so what's shown is somewhat dated.

Hopefully the next film will show some of the problems that have been encountered due to the recent "adverse weather conditions" - the effects of which could have been reduced had they thought to put up a protective covering over the shaft on top some time ago...