It's a World Heritage Site, don't forget.

We have what looks like a very similar Long Barrow in rural Northumberland. It's not even known where the entrance is. You could dig this one up. It'll be a similar age.

>You know, this "Do not open or excavate mentality" is not dissimilar to the "Do not use Avebury or Stonehenge for modern ceremonies" mentality; both are fixed in latter-day interpretations of the place and as such are frankly irrelevant

Its nowhere near the same!
You on the whiskey again?
PeteG

>I do believe that information gained from an excavation at a place such as East Kennet would be a valuable addition to our understanding of these structures and their place in pre-history.

It is full of bodies and bone pieces and odd ritual things we don't understand just like WKLB and many other barrows plundered in the area over the last 150 years.
What on earth do you think it could tell us that would be new and groundbreaking?
Would it be worth loosing our last ancient ancestors burial place in Avebury for a smattering of new knowledge?
PeteG
("We knew the bones to be ancient as they shattered when we threw them" Colt-Hoare at Overton Barrows)