English Heritage will be holding a public meeting about the repair of Silbury at the Study centre in Avebury on November 26th. Entrance is by (free) ticket, via customers@english-heritage.org.uk
The proposed venue has limited space so may be altered depending on demand but early booking would probably be advisable.
Not looking for replies, so long as people are aware. Having been starved of knowledge for five and a half years the public is now being offered a presentation in a venue that takes about 30 people so a good response is necessary if it's to be changed.
What's there now was only added very recently and still doesn't indicate the basis of their decision in the least. The information flow has been very inadequate (not my assessment, something Sir Neil fully acknowledged in a letter to us).
Recently? Perhaps you've not dug deeply enough. Whoever drafted the letter was misguided and Neil was foolish to sign it. EH surely has better things to do than deal with a self appointed bunch of nerds and single issue fanatics who think they know better than the professional staff employed to care for guardianship monuments
Crumbs! "Perhaps you've not dug deeply enough." !! "Whoever drafted the letter was misguided" !! and Neil was foolish to sign it. !! nerds....single issue fanatics... !!
I sense that no response is required, so won't supply one.
Except: "think they know better than the professional staff employed to care for guardianship monuments" is a puzzling accusation. Can you point to the evidence upon which you make such a sweeping accusation, bearing in mind we have never expressed an opinion on how Silbury should be repaired? Our sole "single issue" is that the decision to tunnel should be explained in detail to the public. Is that an unreasonable request? If you are able to explain it by reference to what has been revealed then fine, we'll stop asking.
If you think that I get the least pleasure from asking the question and being exposed to the superficial withering scorn that you have served up is a pleasurable experience you're very much mistaken. However, the question remains entirely unanswered and I very much doubt that you can answer it so I shall continue to ask it in my nerdish fanatical fashion.
Don't worry Nigel, I'm pretty sure Roger holds the same view about me and Thornborough.
Roger, remember you posted Neil Camplings claims that there were no plans for quarrying within the Thornborough Henge complex? Do you think that statement was accurate? Did you know, at the same time as writing that, he was also finalising the pre-archaeological investigations for Ladybridge?
And the pit alingments he was so keen to show that we did not know what we were talking about - turns out they were Mesolithic and the only such monument known in Britain. Shame they were quarried six months AFTER I made my claims and they were dismissed.
Nigel, I generally assume that strong opposition by Roger means we are striking a nerve.
Roger, remember you posted Neil Camplings claims that there were no plans for quarrying within the Thornborough Henge complex?.....
Well, I do remember he slammed us on the very eve of our Silbury Demo for having the temerity to suggest that just maybe the structural problems at Silbury were a lot worse than was being made public! Last December EH confessed in great detail that the nerds were right after all!
Incidentally, it seems there are many misguided members of the public. EH have just sent me a message to say they've changed the venue to accommodate the numbers applying - to the Corn Exchange, Devizes. Book tickets via Beverley Ballon at English Heritage on 0117 9750703 or emailing Beverley.ballon@english-heritage.org.uk .
Seems like the fanatics might have a point after all.
Incidentally, it seems there are many misguided members of the public.
In your opinion Nigel,but I think you will soon give them your slant on it.
I only meant they seem "misguided" in the same way as me, i.e. not willing to accept a decision when the reason for it hasn't been explained.
I WILL give my slant on it, which simply amounts to: "WHY?"
It's a question that seems to cause huge difficulty to EH and evidently makes me a target for intemperate insults, as you can see. However, it's an excellent question and is never ever answered, as you can also see.
So - water,duck, back - and WHY, until the public (as taxpayers, EH's paymasters and the true "owners" of Silbury) get the explanation they're owed.
Originally posted by Silaction: until the public (as taxpayers, EH's paymasters and the true "owners" of Silbury) get the explanation they're owed.
Taken from the internet:
The enquiry is the result of a planning appeal by the Hill’s owner, Lord Avebury. ... Silbury Hill was purchased by Lord Avebury’s grandfather
EH are merely guardians of the monument answerable (under the statute which created them) to the Secretary of State for its maintenance and to Lord Avebury as its owner.
