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Littlestone
Littlestone
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Silbury updates
May 20, 2007, 16:20
Following on from moss' post at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=40950&message=509502 perhaps we could do a Silbury Hill pop-up book as well as a Stonehenge one :-) This would show Silbury's pristine appearance four and a half thousand years ago, followed by its various desecrations and humilities over the last few hundred years. We could have pull-up Cornish miners, abseiling Dutchmen and an Atkinson look-alike being tabbed in and out of his tunnel on a BBC forklift (wearing of course a Superman tunic). We could even run a caption on what pompous platitudes Atkinson was spouting before he bugged off and let his tunnel into the heart of Silbury be backfilled with road chippings.

Can't quite decide how we should pop-up English Heritage (have a few ideas but they verge on the criminal :-) any and all suggestions however are welcome. Meanwhile, English Heritage have said that, "Each Friday, starting with the 18th of May, a new PDF will be made available which will show how far we have got into the tunnel, with images from inside Silbury Hill and an update on the key progress and findings from that week of the project."* That was three days ago - so far zilch. Nor have English Heritage answered the question I sent their 'Ask the Experts' link** last week (or any other questions anyone else may have asked them). Perhaps their experts are away on a long weekend - that is, after all, more important than keeping the concerned taxpayer up-to-date with how their money is being spent on possibly the most important conservation project of the century. Then again, if past performance on the conservation of Silbury is anything to go by, perhaps EH are employing the wrong sort of expert... or worse, don't actually have any experts qualified for the task. Time will tell.

* http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17511
** http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17513
Pete G
Pete G
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Re: Silbury updates
May 20, 2007, 23:50
http://www.people.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=19135302%26siteid=93463-name_page.html
FourWinds
FourWinds
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Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 05:48
I remember that. The clients name was given as Dan Kipper ... an anagram of Kidnapper!
goffik
goffik
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Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 06:05
"heritage experts digging during preservation work at the prehistoric site have been asked to watch for modern human remains."

You'd have hoped that something like "modern human remains" would be noticed by English Heritage's finest anyway, wouldn't you?

"Tell you what, chaps - while you're digging that hole, see if you can find any archaeology at the same time - that'd be fun!" ;o)

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moss
moss
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Edited May 21, 2007, 07:55
Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 07:52
Littlestone wrote:
perhaps we could do a Silbury Hill pop-up book as well as a Stonehenge one :-) This would show Silbury's pristine appearance four and a half thousand years ago, followed by its various desecrations and humilities over the last few hundred years. We could have pull-up Cornish miners, abseiling Dutchmen and an Atkinson look-alike being tabbed in and out of his tunnel on a BBC forklift (wearing of course a Superman tunic). We could even run a caption on what pompous platitudes Atkinson was spouting before he bugged off and let his tunnel into the heart of Silbury be backfilled with road chippings.




Ideas for pop-up.. children should be introduced to the concept of media feedback,(optimistic, full of hope and a load of b..........) how it is then interpreted by said media .... . For the pictures, 1) helicopter and polythene being lowered into the hill; 2) a great tunnel drilled into "the largest manmade prehistoric structure in Europe" which the question alongside, do we really have to extract supposed "treasures" from its interior, or go one looking for information, which may or may not be there?; final picture of Silbury, minus hole at top, sitting in a landscape dedicated to the fact that it is part of a whole symbolic sacred prehistoric landscape.

The book would have in its title Silbury Hill and folly of man, not sure how to juxtapose those two ;)
Pilgrim
Pilgrim
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Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 07:57
goffik wrote:
You'd have hoped that something like "modern human remains" would be noticed by English Heritage's finest anyway, wouldn't you?

G x


You'd think, eh Goff?
They missed this though, didn't they?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/55910/news/silbury_hill.html

Full of confidence, me.......


Peace

Pilgrim

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Pilgrim
Pilgrim
597 posts

Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 08:04
Littlestone wrote:
Meanwhile, English Heritage have said that, "Each Friday, starting with the 18th of May, a new PDF will be made available which will show how far we have got into the tunnel, with images from inside Silbury Hill and an update on the key progress and findings from that week of the project."* That was three days ago - so far zilch.

* http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17511



It's Monday the 21st here, LS....good job they're not running the country, eh?
Given that they've given themselves four months to complete the job, they're not exactly off to a good start, are they? If they have anything about them, they'll have something up today, I hope.

Peace

Pilgrim

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Pete G
Pete G
3506 posts

Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 08:39
No they never missed it.
EH have known about the Roman village for many years.
They just did a new magnatometer study and found a bit more of the village than they were aware of.
They then used the story as a cover to announce the latest Silbury dig (sorry, repairs) were about to start.
nigelswift
8112 posts

Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 08:40
Do stop moaning, it's only been 7 years - it took almost that time to build the Channel tunnel and this one is much longer than that.

You really don't understand that time is relative do you? EH's Commission and monthly Committee minutes are published on their site "as soon as they are approved as a correct record" and the most recent ones shown are from November and December 2006.

Anyway, Pilgrim, whose heritage is it anyway? Yours? Hardly. Get back in your box you....member of the public, you.
goffik
goffik
3926 posts

Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 10:10
nigelswift wrote:
the most recent ones shown are from November and December 2006.


Ah! They've updated it then!

Last time I looked it said "Plans to build biggest man-made hill in Europe on target for 2493 BCE."!

A follow- up said "Polystyrene not yet invented so chalk being used as a substitute filling until then."

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