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Re: Avebury Bypass
Jul 04, 2004, 01:38
>Perhaps I'm being naiive but is the traffic through avebury really causing that much of a problem to the site? Ok so it's hair raising crossing the road sometimes. And it would be nicer to be able to sit there without hearing the thundering traffic.
But do you want to return Avebury to some mythical no-road state?

Is this some kind of argument for knocking a road through Stonehenge, or Silbury, or anywhere else the road lobby decided to wreck, because it's 'progress' and not to would be 'living in a mystical age of yesteryear'-type standpoint?

>It has obviously always been a hub of the area. Roads must have crossed it for millennia.

Personally i view a road through a sacred site as sacriledge - fancy an 'A' road through St Paul's, anyone? But it has happened and we have to live with it at Avebury. We cannot return to the past, but we can at least moderate the effects of what has happened by certain traffic calming schemes, hopefully...

the causewayed entrances lead *to* Avebury - they were never intended to provide 'shortcuts' through the monument, which is an insult to possibly the finest (wrecked) neolithic circle in Europe, if not the world; and a pagan temple to boot, for goodness' sake -

>Is there something of the 'preservation' 'conservation' issue? - what time period do you want to return it to? Shall we get rid of the houses as well (clearly not, though that's what Keiller did - as well as removing lots of trees).

The trees at Avebury obscure important alignments at major times of the seasonal/solar year, bit like planting a rhododendron bush over the mouth of Newgrange . . .

ric
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