fachtna
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Silbury Hill For the Record (with apologies)
Dec 28, 2020, 15:16
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Apologies for bringing this up yet again and thanks for your patience. Even after all of the time that has elapsed I am still affected by events at Silbury in 2007 and I hope that putting a little of what happened 'on the record' will allow me to finally move on.
Below is part of an unsolicited account which I was given by a member of the project team at Silbury (too late to influence events unfortunately) and it provides a disturbing insight into some behaviours on site at the time (and unknown to me).
‘Right from the beginning [of the Silbury fieldwork] … I was very shocked and dismayed about the large amount of bad talk and malicious gossip [about Fachtna McAvoy] … spreading around on site.
During the following weeks [after Fachtna was dismissed from the Silbury site] I always wondered that I was never audited about this matter … during … [the] official investigation [into the allegations made against Fachtna] and also later on.’
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tjj
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Re: Silbury Hill For the Record (with apologies)
Dec 28, 2020, 20:46
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2007 … in the rain.
Silbury was undergoing a technical and difficult conservation exercise. The rain made the job in hand even more difficult and precarious than it otherwise would have been. I recall it being discussed in the Red Lion at a Gathering/Picnic I had been invited to by a man I had known as a teenager, who had disappeared out of my life for decades but with whom I had recently become reacquainted. On that wet afternoon, the man who must remain nameless of course, managed to upset me to the point of trauma – not too long after our paths diverged again but I hung onto my anger for way, way too long. Then last year I learnt the man had died … do I regret the anger I allowed to gnaw away at me? Yes, of course I do. It was only back in summer (in between lock-downs) I asked my good friend to pull in at the WKLB layby. We walked over to the barrow (here you need to know that I had first visited WKLB/Silbury with the above mentioned unnamed man so the association remained). While my good friend went searching for wild flowers on the far side of the barrow I spent some time looking over at Silbury which appeared to be nestled in a field of golden, sunlit barley. I forgave the man I had been angry with for so long. More importantly I forgave myself … for the wisdom I had lacked. And felt gratitude for being alive, standing at a place I had loved for so long.
Forgive those people from 2007 Fachtna, most of us have all been subject to a miscarriage of justice at some point in our lives. It’s gone, let it go.
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fachtna
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Re: Silbury Hill For the Record (with apologies)
Dec 31, 2020, 13:36
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hi tjj - very wise words which I fully hope to be able follow after just one more post - revealing 'bad faith' by Skanska during the Silbury Hill Conservation Project.
I feel that this forum is an appropriate place to put things 'on the record 'as The Modern Antiquarian was the vehicle for defamatory posts about me in 2007 and quite a few of its contributors at the time seemed happy to take part in the speculation and gossip they engendered.
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