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Littlestone
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Re: PLEASE SIGN PETITION, only takes 1 m
May 22, 2004, 00:52
Yeah... it's all worrying stuff (the possible waterlogging round the polystyrene fill; the gut aesthetic/religious aversion to the thought of a polystyrene core at the centre of Silbury; the lack of info from English Heritage).

Guess what I'm saying though is that new materials might seem inappropriate but sometimes they're not as bad as they first seem (expandable polystyrene for example has been a godsend to archaeologists when lifting delicate objects from the ground).

I'm not trying to defend EH here but maybe the conservators responsibe for Silbury are just not sure what to do next and are erring on the side of caution.

Silbury is big, very big, very old and very important. So far the conservators responsible for it seem to be following the golden rule of conservation... 'Do nothing that is not reversible'.
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