[Stones] A penny for your thoughts?

[Ric]

yes, i meant the avenue stones - but i want to see all the stones up, where they belong, in the sun and rain, where we can be wowed by them!
   
  with regard to the A4361, i have long suggested there be a toll at Avebury, which would completely stop juggernauts thundering through the circle on their cost-cutting dash to and from the M4 and Swindon: nodody to date appears to take this seriously, however - which i read as collective apathy, rather than any considered response to a suggested heritage-saving solution?
   
  personally, i would like to see this road, as a thoroughfare, go - and i can understand a negative response to that suggestion. there would remain in and egress for the villagers but NO through traffic; the tarmac is removed from the henge, and we have a full circle to enjoy, and not two halves of a car-dominated, road-compromised monument - which is a ridiculous state of affairs
   
  this is not as 'way out' as it sounds, there are NT villages in Wiltshire with a controlled vehicle presence, for example Laycock
   
  mind you - things are not always as rosy as they might be!
   
   
  http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/latestheadlines/display.var.798180.0.lacock_visitors_to_pay_for_parking.php
   
   
  ric
   
   
  
littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:
          I'm a little surprised that Andy B should find ric's justified concern for the buried stones at Avebury a cause for boredom (though to be strictly accurate the buried stones within the Avebury circle are not subject to agricultural machinery going over them, and the fact that they were buried has, ironically, probably saved them). The possible danger from agricultural machinery are the stones buried in the Kennet and Beckhampton Avenues.
   
  The other 'mechanical' danger at both Avebury and Stonehenge, of course, is the one that comes with the high (and heavy) volumes of traffic close to those monuments - and that is possibly a greater cause for concern.
   
  Littlestone

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