[Stones] The Great Bank

[Ric]

--- NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 05/09/2007 19:50:37 GMT Standard
> Time,  
> megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> 
> Makes
> > Swallhowhead look like a sewer...  
> 
> i take  this as a very unfortunate simile for the
> source of a sacred river, indeed  a sacred spring,
> for
> many, many people today?
> 
> criticise me freely  but please respect all of
> Avebury,
> including the Swallowhead: there are so  many out
> there
> who might interpret your words to their advantage,
> as
> an  excuse to 'develop' this most special, unique
> and
> fragile part of  Wiltshire?
> 
> 
> 
> Crumbs, if I've caused anyone offence I apologise.
> But I feel sure Swallowhead will survive the odd
> word on an internet forum  
> and must say I'm confident there is absolutely
> no-one out there who might  
> interpret my words to their advantage, as an excuse
> to 'develop'  that most 
> special, unique and fragile part of  Wiltshire!
> 

New Labour [with no disrespect to true Socialists]
look set to tarmac'n'concrete the Green Belt at the
moment, and i have little faith in the other main
political parties not to follow suite - if we, the
people, let them get away with it?

'respect'

i am really looking forward to seeing the Waden
Spring: i do not believe it was a focal point in the
Stone Age, more than the Swallowhead was, because
Neolithic activity has been detected in the
Swallowhead region, and because of the surviving
placename, testifying to something in the landscape
which merited one, and one which endured - like the
Kennet River being known as something besides 'winter
river' - as far as i am aware, there is no name per se
for the spring beneath Waden Hill?

Ric