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nigelswift
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Re: Vote for Silbury!
Aug 20, 2005, 07:31
"True, but the devil is in the detail Nigel. A public meeting is called for - absolutely."

I would hope EH would see the merit of doing it themselves, but if not I'd be happy if HA decided they'd like to offer them a fait ready accomplied.

"It actually needs someone to get out there, find a venue, cough up the money to secure it..."

Given a need and a mandate, you can take it that details like those would be no problem. I personally think any initiative like that would be best as a multi-organizational affair – and I'm sure there are others who would be willing to lend their name to it. An awful lot of well-informed non-archaeologists didn't get invited to the Peer Group Review in Devizes and are yet to be consulted.

I wouldn't want to be involved in preparing a bear pit, or a meeting that strayed into general issues like delay and public accountability, important though they are. EH simply wouldn't come and I wouldn't blame them, I think the urgent current need is a forensic examination of the structural risks – and specialists in that field ought to have the lion's share of the platform, no-one else. All else would detract from getting to the nub – and there IS a very troubling and undemocratic nub that needs to be faced up to squarely, if only for EH's reputation.

So my preference would be for a very specific prior-agreed and focussed agenda, and perhaps a limit on attendance. What I really don't want is to sit through hours of off-target shooting on one side and hours of generalised "background briefing" on the other, and watch the rabbit slip away at the end. I'd rather everyone caught the rabbit, looked it in the eye and decided what to do with it in a rational and well-informed way.

As I say though, this isn't all up to me or HA, it's a public hill.
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