Littlestone
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Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 18:34
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Re: http://lemontravel.com/the-secret-of-avebury/
You can climb it [Silbury] for a view around the country side. No one really has an explanation for it’s original purpose. Though scientists have dug here, nothing significant has ever been found. Is it a sundial? A rich burial site? Your theory is as good as anyone’s so far.
Well, at least they had the sense and decency to publish Nigel and AlanS' comments - well done fellas! Next, people who think it's OK to climb on Stonehenge - be good to hear (from a conservation point of view) why those people think that's acceptable.
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megadread
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 18:46
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Littlestone wrote: Re: http://lemontravel.com/the-secret-of-avebury/
You can climb it [Silbury] for a view around the country side. No one really has an explanation for it’s original purpose. Though scientists have dug here, nothing significant has ever been found. Is it a sundial? A rich burial site? Your theory is as good as anyone’s so far.
Well, at least they had the sense and decency to publish Nigel and AlanS' comments - well done fellas! Next, people who think it's OK to climb on Stonehenge - be good to hear (from a conservation point of view) why those people think that's acceptable.
Plenty of these around silbury's base. ; )
http://i32.tinypic.com/2bs6sp.jpg
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Lefturn
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:10
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Anbody care to mention it is privately owned and not owned by the state?
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Littlestone
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Edited Jul 18, 2010, 20:47
Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:21
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Think you should post a link to that notice on their website Mr m. They still haven't withdrawn their comment that, "You can climb it for a view around the country side."
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megadread
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:26
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Littlestone wrote: Think you should post a link to that notice on their website Mr M. They still haven't withdrawn their comment that, "You can climb it for a view around the country side."
Done, though i'm no preacher on the rights and wrongs of climbing Silbury, i've been up twice myself.
Tut tut.
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Mustard
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:27
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Littlestone wrote: Think you should post a link to that notice on their website Mr M. They still haven't withdrawn their comment that, "You can climb it for a view around the country side."
"Still"? Weren't those comments on the article only posted today? Give 'em a bloody chance!
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Sanctuary
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:34
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megadread wrote: Littlestone wrote: Re: http://lemontravel.com/the-secret-of-avebury/
You can climb it [Silbury] for a view around the country side. No one really has an explanation for it’s original purpose. Though scientists have dug here, nothing significant has ever been found. Is it a sundial? A rich burial site? Your theory is as good as anyone’s so far.
Well, at least they had the sense and decency to publish Nigel and AlanS' comments - well done fellas! Next, people who think it's OK to climb on Stonehenge - be good to hear (from a conservation point of view) why those people think that's acceptable.
Plenty of these around silbury's base. ; )
http://i32.tinypic.com/2bs6sp.jpg
The signs don't actually say it's illegal to climb it do they and they don't go out of their way to protect it too well either!
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Sanctuary
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:41
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megadread wrote: Littlestone wrote: Think you should post a link to that notice on their website Mr M. They still haven't withdrawn their comment that, "You can climb it for a view around the country side."
Done, though i'm no preacher on the rights and wrongs of climbing Silbury, i've been up twice myself.
Tut tut.
So have I twice...and dozens of workman. I'm not saying it's right but the fact is that the real damage has been done by the digs carried out over the years, not by visitors who have climbed it. When Atkinson carried out his dig there in the late 60's he actually commented on the amazing condition of the mound and how it would have hardly changed in 4,500 years. The archo's soon changed that, not the climbers!!
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Littlestone
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Edited Jul 18, 2010, 20:46
Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:42
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"Still"? Weren't those comments on the article only posted today? Give 'em a bloody chance!
Surely if they have time to moderate and approve comments they have time to correct their inaccuracies (or am I missing something?).
And well done mega' - let's see if they publish your comment as well :-)
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Mosh
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Re: Grrr...
Jul 18, 2010, 19:45
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... though i'm no preacher on the rights and wrongs of climbing Silbury, i've been up twice myself.
Tut tut.
Me too. Climbed on Stonehenge at night as well.
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