[Stones] Silbury time capsule

[Ric]

sure - and thanks to all - i went red, needless to say
... :-o [red html]

but i could have summed it all up with one word:
'depressing'?

R

--- littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:

> Nice piece of writing ric - would you mind if I
> posted it elsewhere to give it maximum exposure?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i visited 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 caterpillar 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.

yes please!

;)