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Silbury Hill

To the Heart of the Matter

Littlestone L
Littlestone Nov 20, 2007 22:02:54
Replying to nigelswift

But where does it show the "much more extensive" collapses that they were so surprised to discover when they went in?
Don't you just love the way people skate around questions they can't or won't answer ;-)

We expressed our disapproval of English Heritage's time capsule idea here and elsewhere and, with the support of others, forced EH to abandon it. Do English Heritage even mention that they've been forced to abandon their time capsule idea in Silbury? No, just a passing reference in one of their updates that the time capsule will now be placed in the Alexander Keiller Museum at Avebury! We ask questions, repeatedly, about the removal of the Atkinson/BBC door and 1968 concrete lintel and what do we get? Silence. We ask why x cubic metres of original Neolithic building material has been removed from the centre of Silbury to accommodate a 'geo-electrical cable' and what do we get? Silence.

So come on English Heritage, we are after all paying your wages, tell us this week if you are, or you are not, going to remove the Atkinson/BBC door and lintel, and while you're at it, tell us why it was necessary to cut a new trench into the heart of Silbury and what exactly this geo-electrical cable of yours is going to do.

No ifs, buts or deflections this time please - just straight answers.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 22, 2007 16:09:58
Replying to Littlestone

So come on English Heritage, we are after all paying your wages......tell us why it was necessary to cut a new trench into the heart of Silbury..

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men.

Its not for us to know Littlestone. Think of it as one of a growing list of wewon'tbutactuallywewills. In this instance it qualifies by virtue of the previous constant assurances that "we won't be building a bigger tunnel" whereas a large trench constructed in the floor of the existing tunnel and stretching the full distance from the centre to the outside will produce, indisputably, a larger tunnel.

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