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moss wrote: Atkinson though committed the great crime of not publishing the results of his excavations, on two very important sites, namely Stonehenge and Silbury, for which he has been lambasted . Absolutely. Failure to do that was a terrible thing, certainly by the 1960s. It's the act of a right selfish monkey if you ask me and there's no "hindsight" defence. Mind you, he does embody the principle that official "Truth" is politicised and changes when convenient. EH said not a word against him for decades (as to do so would be to criticise their predecessor organisation I suppose) and then suddenly about ten years ago they (four of them) laid into him in British Archaeology in the run up to the Silbury dig (better the predecessor organisation was seen as at fault at that stage I suppose). As I heard it (once removed) from one of the last surviving Atkinson Silbury diggers they were left to their own devices entirely during the tunnel filling phase and didn't see an archeo for weeks on end and didn't even try to fill it fully. At one point, allegedly, they ripped some of the timber lining down and had a bonfire inside the tunnel. So we can stick that (alleged) negligence onto his charge sheet next to the non-publishing one. Reply | with quote |  13th January 2011ce 11:28 In reply to: Re: Savages and howling barbarians... (moss) |
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