Littlestone wrote: The debate here about a time capsule is far more than a debate about a time capsule: it is a debate about how we perceive and how we preserve our heritage. English Heritage's idea of a time capsule inside Silbury belongs to the Victorian era, not to an era increasingly aware that our natural and cultural heritage is poised on the edge of a precipice.
There's little difference between the general feeling here and what Stukeley must have felt seeing barrows torn open, and stones broken up and dragged away. How little we have progressed in 200 years or more, with the farce of the Government arguing with the Government over Stonehenge and the main Conservation group in the country considering defiling a monument they are supposed to protect from intrusion.
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