[Stones] Avebury ditch and bank

[Giles Ingham]

I've been to plenty of sites with fallen stones, where I've thought it would really add to the place if they were re-erected. I think this would count as "sensitive restoration"? The Avebury stones would have to be dug up and are on a different scale of magnitude to most stone circles, but surely re-erecting them is really just the next step in the restoration process that has already taken place at the site? 

>>> george at currie22.freeserve.co.uk 28/06/2006 10:52 >>>
    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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