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Re: The Stukeley Line
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bladup wrote:
the reason why the prehistoric archaeology has been destroyed [which lets us put them back up] will one day themselves be seen as an important part of the Avebury story and the holes seen as archaeology themselves


That has already happened. The burning pits at Beckhampton were subject to detailed archaeological investigation. Everything that has happened is seen as part of the story, including erosion, vandalism and all of Keiller's work, mistakes and all. So restoring one part and not the rest is hard to justify.

It also has to be asked, if changes are deliberately made, for how long will they stay? It's a certainty that the future will see what is done as partly mistaken, and call for corrections - at which point Trigger will have yet another new broom with even less valid connection to the original.)

Add to all that the "knowledge loss" thing and the fact that there's no "rescue archaeology" element and people have a perfectly respectable set of reasons for opposing re-erection, ones that are acknowledged by EH, UNESCO and all the international conventions. So they're certainly not to be dismissed as narrow-minded - they're exactly the reverse actually.


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Posted by nigelswift
21st January 2013ce
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