[Stones] The irreverent day

[NIGELSWIFT at aol.com]

In a message dated 04/01/2008 13:56:33 GMT Standard Time,  
littlestone at supanet.com writes:

- it says it all.


I just have to chime in with agreement.
 
There's an immensely powerful kernel of truth in this bit - 
 
 
There is a terrible sadness that lies at the heart of all this, the  damage 
that has been done to Silbury over the centuries out of curiosity and the  need 
for treasure, and then the simple truth that what did lie at Silbury's  heart 
was this small mound surrounded by stones with simple  offerings.
 
Nothing has changed throughout all the intrusions into the hill from 1776  to 
2008 - each has been driven by either a need for treasure or a need for  
knowledge, each without exception has not yielded what had been hoped for  and 
each has diminished the hill.
 
As if that wasn't bad enough, Thelma has also highlighted a terrible irony  - 
that actually, all that was ever there to be found inside was not world  
shattering treasure or a cache of amazing knowledge but just  a small mound 
surrounded by stones with simple offerings. If  those who so single-mindedly dug in 
pursuit of what they too  hastily assumed was there had paused a moment 
perhaps they would have  realised that was what was most likely to have been there.
 
Yet it's still worse. Now even those modest tokens left by the  builders, the 
true and authentic treasure of Silbury, have probably been  lost forever and 
all we are left with is a lasting monument to  centuries of human arrogance.  




   
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