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Stonehenge and its Environs

Stonehenge visitor centre plans unveiled

Rhiannon R
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..

N nigelswift
nigelswift Sep 15, 2004 15:59:36
Replying to Rhiannon

There are international conventions that state that archaeology of all time periods is equally worthy of preservation. There are snippets on the web and elsewhere to suggest there are those that regard 18th and 19th century excavation tunnels as important parts of the archaeological record that must be studied and preserved.

My theory as to the cause of the international scandal that Silbury is that there are voices in EH who have succeeded in twisting the programme to take account of the tunnels.

Hard to believe that anyone could be so learned as to prejudice neolithic archaeology for the sake of the tunnels, but what other explanation can there be?

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