[Stones] The Erosion of Human Knowledge / Avebury

[Ric]

i know this is a perennial hobby horse of mine - but when you think what archaeology and knowledge of the past stand to gain from carefully excavating and repositioning these stones - it is nothing short of a national scandal that this half-buried neolithic wonder in the West Country is consistently neglected by its official establishment guardians, who literally sit on it, year in, year out, for over half a century now. what justification can there be for denying knowledge? what justification can there be for denying world heritage to the world?
   
  ric

NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:
      In a message dated 30/11/2006 22:05:55 GMT Standard Time, littlestone at supanet.com writes:
    Ric - "who knows what might turn up in the accurately repositioned sarsen, after prolonged study throughout the seasons and hours of sunlight from dawn to dusk: a face, a symbol, a mute message to posterity from the vanished megalithic builders ~ who knows?".
   
  Littlestone -  Absolutely again!
  Absolutely yet again! What a marvellous thought. There's a poem in there somewhere.
   
  Anyhow, the other great thing about it is that accessing that mute message might not be a remote goal, arrived at after donkey's years of trying to persuade the authorities, it might be right in our own hands....  How ruddy intriguing is that?!
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