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|  New Message Posted!2012-10-06 21:06
Hi Neil
You need the Dustman Hoffman. I'm sure he could find the correct method.
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PeteG
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 16:25
We know the chalk inside is millions of years old so by John's logic Silbury must have been built millions of years ago!
I can see it now, primitive man sat on top of the mound hiding behind a small bush which he holds in one hand with a club in the other just waiting for a passing Brontosaurus to come by and graze, then... THWACK!
Primitive man has food for his tribe.
In fact, thinking about it, the whole Avebury complex is being looked at upside down!
The Sanctuary is the Head, the Avenue the Neck, Avebury Circle the Body and Bechampton Avenue the Tail!
It's a massive representation of a Brontosaurus in the landscape!
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Feanor
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 15:41
I think it's safe to say that I am not as informed about The Hill as perhaps I should be. Frankly, in this thread and its links, I have learned a great deal more than I ever did.
If I am mistaken about certain aspects it's certainly through ignorance, i.e.: the Deer Antler, et.al.
I do believe that I am qualified to address the premise, and this is how I have tried to proceed.
If Silbury Hill was wet inside it would have collapsed a very long time ago, first sloughing apart from the bottom, then 'melting'. Its mass is too great, and its got no internal shoring. We have seen examples of this 'sloughing' in just the last generation if I'm not mistaken.
They may well have built it to Reach the Sky, ala Tower of Babel among others. But I feel very strongly that they didn't build it so the Sky could reach Them.
Brigantia - we must surely collaborate!
John - I see a popular series of 'Dustman' books in the offing.
In a dystopian world where all are oppressed by the Evil Sky Masters, one man - Steve the Dustman - now hard-bitten and resentful of his treatment by the greedy Ugge, moves North to Avebury where his talents can be better appreciated. Unwittingly pressed into service by unscrupulous Chalk-Brokers, he battles turmoil and self-doubt as he works weaving baskets for the kind and beautiful local girl Mugge.
A thrilling tale of Love & Adventure, will Steve find acceptance among these peculiar Strangers? Will Mugge's heart finally turn to him?
Armed only with a pocketful of Flint, Steve must overcome steep odds to find love, meaning and purpose while battling sinister adversaries from Beyond the Moon on the slippery slopes of mysterious Silbury Hill.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture.
Next up: "The Dustman Only Rings Twice"
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brigantia
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 15:30
 
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There's a potential international bestseller with that one Pete. As long as it violates all attributions to common sense and we can get Leonard Nimoy to write the Foreword, I think we should go with it!
ttfn - Paul 
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PeteG
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 15:16
What Me? Not on such a serious topic.
Whatever next?
"Space Aliens ate my Megaliths?"
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brigantia
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 14:48
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| On 2012-10-06 01:08, PeteG wrote:
LOL. It must of been that corn circle I stepped in wot woz on that Ley Line that made me miss the aliens.... |
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Errr, look here.... You'd better not be ripping the piss!! 
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PeteG
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 01:08
LOL. It must of been that corn circle I stepped in wot woz on that Ley Line that made me miss the aliens....
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brigantia
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-06 00:39
Now come on Pete - get real!
I was talking with Derich von Jerrycan the other week about this, when we were resurfacing bits of the Moon (bloody dusty up there!). Silbury Hill wasn't even made by humans - surely you know this!? What on Earth have you been doing with y'self all these years. Now we know that you've lived round the Silbury/Avebury complex for much of your lilfe - but c'mon mate! Anybody would think that you've been researching the area, going round all the sites for years & years, discovering previously undiscovered sites, visiting them night & day in all weathers so that you know them like the back of yer hand - and you have the audacity to think that they're NOT 10,000 BC in age. Now c'mon Pete. What are you on??? (it was actually built around 250,000 AD (time-travellers), then fell into a wormhole and came out covered in grass & stuff, looking a bit scruffy & all, just before Stukeley & his mates arrived. Seriously! 
And doesn't it look like a UFO from some angles!? Surely that's significant?!!
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-05 19:59
You seem to be badly informed about what has happened at Silbury both during the restoration and the original excavations.
When you spent a small amount of time in the tunnel on October 2007 the centre of the mound was wet after the June collapse.
The tunnel from the entrance towards the middle of the mound was bone dry.
The 1960s miners report that it was bone dry!
The way the mound was built, with clay cappings, made sure the contents of the primary mound were perfectly preserved.
If rain had got into the mound things like grass and insects would have rotted millennia ago!
They didn't, which proves that the mound was dry.
The way Silbury three was constructed funneled rainwater down the outside.
It's Your theory which is Madcap and Highly Dubious.
I am only reporting back what highly skilled and trained professionals are saying to me.
I've wasted enough time on this already. You can't convince a Believer they are wrong so good luck with your belief (it's not a Theory)
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-05 19:32
Chalk provides great drainage to my local golf course so it is very rarely water-logged and it also dries out fairly quickly.
Some chalk is less porous than others, but nevertheless all chalks are porous – they allow water to seep through them!
Walking through the tunnel from the edge to the centre, I found the ground and walls were soaking wet, as also reported in the first paragraph of this article:–
[URL=http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/oct/25/heritage.art[/URL]
Wet core samples/dry core samples they are all contaminated. This supposed new evidence that has come to light, provided by the highly dubious science on your side, based on the madcap assumption that Silbury Hill was “never soaked through with water” is incredulous. 
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