[Stones] Avebury ditch and bank

[George Currie]

Hello Stuart , You can't get in without a ticket , which is bought the 
visitor centre .You are then taken to Newgrange and Knowth (if you bought a 
ticket for Knowth too ) by bus. There is an informative guided tour lasting 
about 40 minutes , so  it's not quite like wandering around Avebury . There 
are countless great sites between the two cities .The Tara complex being the 
most obvious.

 George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stuart anthony" <stuant63 at hotmail.com>
To: <stones at henge.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Stones] Avebury ditch and bank


> Hello george, or anyone who knows.   Is it possible to get inside the 
> Newgrange mound on a normal (ie not midwinter sunrise) visit without 
> buying one of those lottery ticket thingies?  I might have a chance to 
> visit the place soon and would like to know if I can get inside.
>
> What other ancient sites  are worth visiting between Belfast and Dublin?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> stuart
>
>
>>From: "George Currie" <george at currie22.freeserve.co.uk>
>>Reply-To: The Stones Mailing List <stones at henge.org.uk>
>>To: "The Stones Mailing List" <stones at henge.org.uk>
>>Subject: Re: [Stones] Avebury ditch and bank Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 
>>10:52:51 +0100
>>
>>     hello Ric ,  I don't think I'm alone in viewing the Newgrange 
>> restoration as a bit imaginative  , tourists love it but the reasoning 
>> for believing that the entrance was anything like the present facade is 
>> very flimsy .Buying an entry ticket allows you to enter the draw for the 
>> midwinter "event" .
>>
>>           george
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Ric
>>   To: The Stones Mailing List
>>   Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:48 AM
>>   Subject: Re: [Stones] Avebury ditch and bank
>>
>>
>>   i couldn't agree less - sensitive restoration is the way forward - look 
>> at the restored Newgrange, there are so many people queuing up to get 
>> inside, you need to buy a lottery ticket just to be one of them!
>>
>>   :-|
>>
>>   NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:
>>     In a message dated 26/06/2006 21:09:12 GMT Standard Time, 
>> megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>>       i would actually like to see the ditch and berm restored at 
>> Avebury - why? - because it is awesome in a way that a jumbo jet, though 
>> huge, isn't: and we need that sense of awe in our lives, it elevates our 
>> quality of life experience, our raison d'être
>>
>>     Nah, better not. It would effectively be a reconstruction and all the 
>> magic would drain out of it.Most of the Spirit of Place at these sites 
>> comes from the fact that the hands of nature and Time have been laid upon 
>> them. If you re-excavate the ditch then logically you should straighten 
>> the stones and scrub the lichen off them. There's a clean, straight 
>> modern circle in Dudley and it stinks.
>>
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