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Stonehenge visitor centre plans unveiled

nigelswift N
nigelswift Sep 15, 2004 15:31:51
Replying to Rhiannon

It's a repair in the sense that it's definitely not a repair and is compelling evidence of something that isn't a repair.

I forgot to mention that the phrase was actually "re-excavate and reprofile". Now I know what re-profile means, it means drill away the existing tunnel walls and make a bigger tunnel.

So the literal, unspun meaning of one of the few repair options put to them was "to drill a new tunnel right to the centre of Silbury for reasons unknown."

I've written suggesting this might cause a bit of a fuss, but their reply made no reference to it.

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Sep 15, 2004 15:41:00
Replying to nigelswift

It sounds quite gobsmackingly pointless, and in my ignorance it sounds like a surefire way to create even more problems? Even if they poured a few tons of concrete down the hole one imagines it would do more good than drilling a hole through the base. But what do I know. Perhaps its part of their devious plan to frighten everyone into thinking that if they *do do something it'll be really mad - so the best thing to do is to Shut Up and put EH off doing anything at all..

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Sep 16, 2004 07:16:49
Replying to nigelswift

They are trying to restore the lanscape to it's original form and the proposal is for the visitor centre to look like a stone wall so that it doesn't impinge on the vista (I bet the architect gets a nice fat fee for that idea). Why not hide it completely by building it into the reverse side of a small hill? Come to think of it, maybe "re-excavating reprofiling the tunnels" is a euphemism for turning Silbury Hill into the visitor centre. ;o)

Steve

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