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Re: Silbury Round One

Nov 28, 2005, 14:33

Here is your report on Silbury from Heritage Actions website

Heritage Action's report
By Nigel Swift (Site Inspector), [email protected]

Recently, a <b>horribly incomplete account of possible repair options has been released.</b> This has added huge concern over the form of repairs that might be chosen to our existing concern over the delay.

Surely the clear priority is to fix the hill in the most effective and efficient way possible. There is a strong lobby, though, in favour of repairs that also allow research.

Simpler and cheaper engineering solutions to the repairs appear to be available, but the little information made public seems to 'play down' these options in favour of the option that allows simultaneous research.

<b>A new and larger tunnel would be bored into the heart of the mound from the side, involving much disruption to Silbury itself, risk of additional collapse, huge expense and years of further delay.</b>.

I'll be interested to see what the new webpage says.

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