[Stones] Avebury ditch and bank

[George Currie]

Hello Giles , I have no problem with "sensaitive restoration" , it's not too 
difficult to find socket holes and match them up with fallen  stones , 
Tomnaverie is a good example but Newgrange is quite different.

george
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giles Ingham" <Giles at shelter.org.uk>
To: <stones at henge.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Stones] Avebury ditch and bank



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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