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Rhiannon wrote:
To be honest Tiompan you'd be wasting your time, because any amount of photos showing nothing at all will not convince the Faithful.

Ironically I think the very archive that would assist is actually in Swindon.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/nmr/archives/ So of course this will already have been checked, before going public in a newspaper. Well probably. Not.

Secret knowledge, it's great isn't it. I know it's 3000 years old. I know it shows an owl and a spaceman. I know it was looked after by pagans for hundreds of years. No I'm afraid I can't show you the photos, they don't come out well in a newspaper apparently. Or now (as we're told above) we're not allowed to see them until the work's published (in which prestigious peer-reviewed journal I do wonder). You'll just have to believe me. Oh and if you're interested I've got a great second hand car you might like.

Ooer! The biting sarcasm Rhiannon. I personally go with your earlier comment elsewhere that it is the 'silly season' for newspapers. The Swindon Advertiser is not always too discerning and will print anything with a local slant to it. Having said that - the Foxhill to Uffington landscape is archaeologically unique, as Tiompian mentioned, for example, the strip lynchets at Bishopstone. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2806561
And the all that is associated with the Ridgeway in that area, including Wayland's Smithy. Just wish the image looked more credible instead something resembling an adolescent fantasy.

"Oh and if you're interested I've got a great second hand car you might like".

Have you still got it Rhiannon? I'm VERY interested.