[Stones] The irreverent day (Silbury Henge?)

[Ric]

i'm stunned

how can EH be so feckless?

they've outdone themselves here - and i thought i had
the measure of their gormlessness?

these sarsens are possibly a stone circle which
pre-dates Silbury Hill? - they are are incredibly
important, therefore!

:-O

Ric


ps. who's in charge at Silbury - Mr Pastry?



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

>
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/65185.jpg
> 
> "Four small sarsen stones lying alongside some of
> the steelwork taken from the Atkinson Tunnel, and
> now in the English Heritage/Skanska compound at the
> base of Silbury Hill."
> 
> Presumably these sarsens are some of those recently
> mentioned in the press that have been found within
> Silbury. According to latest theories the stones may
> represent the souls of those who died at the time
> Silbury was being constructed.
> 
> The question now is, will these sarsens be returned
> to their rightful place within Silbury or be left
> exposed to 'the irreverent day' on a wooden pallet
> (along with 1960's steelwork form the Atkinson/BBC
> tunnel) before being deposited in a museum - or
> somewhere even worse? Will English Heritage confirm,
> either in the press or on their Silbury Updates
> website, that they intend to adhere to accepted
> principles of conservation and the religious
> concerns of some members of our society (concerns
> which do demand the proper treatment of these
> objects) or are we to expect yet again (and in the 
> words of Lord Avebury) that they will be guilty of
> offending accepted, "...conservation principles, as
> well as the spiritual beliefs of some people."?
> 
> Looking at these stones (the religious equivalent of
> modern headstones perhaps) that were no doubt placed
> with care and reverence in Silbury by our ancestors
> more than 4,000 years ago, Emmeline Fisher's Silbury
> poem of 1849 takes on a new, sad and almost
> prophetic meaning -
> 
> Bones of our wild forefathers, O forgive,
> If we now pierce the chambers of your rest,
> And open your dark pillows to the eye
> Of the irreverent day...
> 
> Full poem at - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/> 


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