[Stones] Silbury time capsule

[Ric]

Hi,

i visted Silbury Hill on Sunday afternoon [19 August
07], it was bedraggled with construction site
equipment (inert), workers' portacabin extempore
village (no sign of life), persistent drizzle and lots
of chalky mud everywhere; the catepillar diggers have
left a wide muddy track all the way round one side of
Silbury; there is a forlorn visitors' information
point, roadside of the hill, with a flimsy sign fixed
to the fence, fluttering in the grey breeze. there are
neither visitors nor experts in bright yellow, hard
hats, enthusiastically disseminating words of wisdom:
the spot is entirely vacant. above the tunnel entrance
is marked out - in blue rope - the shape of a long
subsidence, running up the hill, directly over the
tunnel. before the ominous-looking, shuttered entrance
to the re-opened tunnel stands a motionless mechanical
digger, apparently abandoned? the entire site is
eerily silent and resembles more the messy aftermath
to some awful catastrophe, rather than the sprightly
prospect of an efficient EH project, so deftly filmed
for PR posterity several years ago, when the initial
steps were being taken to stabilise the hill, and
ultimately restore it? where are the cameras,
state-of-art technology, helicopters, snappy press
releases, smart presenters and television experts now?
what is happening at Silbury? what is happening to
Silbury?!

:(

Ric

ps. i wrote to Eric/Lord Avebury - he advises everyone
concerned to write, phone or email English Heritage to
object to their plan to bury a 'time capsule' inside
Silbury Hill.


--- NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:

> My assumption the lintel isn't supporting anything
> is based on the fact it  
> is so close to the surface.
>  
> I agree "to what point in time do you restore things
> to" has no real  answer. 
> But we can all agree some things are inappropriate
> can't we? The lintel  is 
> hardly a marginal case. And of course, is some
> things are so modern we all  
> agree they have no place there, how much more
> perverse and irrational is it to  
> contemplating putting something brand new IN there!
> Who would dream of doing  
> that? Oh, the government's statutory advisor on
> heritage  would!