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Re: Alexander Keiller's Avebury/The Sanctuary
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moss wrote:
"Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!"

Not sure if this right but didn't Piggott 'restore' Wayland's Smithy? To be quite honest I'm sitting on the fence about restoration of Avebury, and can see the problems with concrete bollards, but there again going to Woodhenge - impossible to restore of course - but the 'sense' of its presence was still there and the sad grave of the little prehistoric child in its centre gave credence to its history.

Edit; Ruskin has probably written more on any subject concerning art than most people, but admiring the rocky slopes of the alps or the architecture of Venice hardly makes him the expert on megaliths;)



Piggott, Atkinson and Grinsell I think, 62-ish.

Ruskin visited Avebury to draw the 'Druid stones'!

This is all good talky stuf (it can't last capn mannering etc.)


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Posted by VBB
24th January 2013ce
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