CARL wrote:
Although I am probably going to be in a minority I still think it was the right thing to do. There is no question that it was only a matter of time before the circle was lost to the elements, be that one year, ten years or 100 years. What would be gained by that? Think how many other sites are long gone due to the elements - sites we know nothing about. At least this one has been preserved as a testiment to its builders. Who knows what future benefits and understanding may come from its preservation? Better in a museum than gone forever.
Time Team get a lot of stick about 'Seahenge' but it was nothing to do with them. They just made a programme about what was already happening. It would have been removed whether Time Team were present or not. I still think this was Time Team's best 'special' of the very many they made.
Fuck, just typed out a long reply and lost it as i wasn't running my proxy, i'm still IP banned you see. bollox to typing it out again. :)Time Team get a lot of stick about 'Seahenge' but it was nothing to do with them. They just made a programme about what was already happening. It would have been removed whether Time Team were present or not. I still think this was Time Team's best 'special' of the very many they made.
Yeah i'm aware the dig would have happened anyway TT involved or not, should have made that clearer in the OP i guess, and i agree it's one of if not the best TT to date, hence searching for 3 days to find it online, but i'm still 60/40 on the merits of it all, after all it was a wooden monument so maybe it wasn't intended to last, maybe "we've" interfered in a way we can never understand. ? I dunno, i just think it's so sad how it's ended up, present it now to someone who never saw the original context and it'd be a very hard to make head or tail of it. not that we've "cracked" it's meaning in any way i should add.
