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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_b ... ory=487950

They it's the most important of its type since 1939. Cool.

Anybody like to guess which local paper has seen its printing press break down this morning? As soon as we get a decent story .....

I thought this was going to be a story about finding some early demos from a naff heavy metal band. Then I saw the 1939 date and realised they haven't been around that long. Just seems it.

Black Horizon wrote:

Johnny Boy wrote:I thought this was going to be a story about finding some early demos from a naff heavy metal band. Then I saw the 1939 date and realised they haven't been around that long. Just seems it.

Yeah and Saxon the band are so bad, they could suck the dirt out of a carpet

Wheels Of Steel was a fantastic album!

That is something. It's surprising the tomb was intact after so many years.

CellThree wrote:Wheels Of Steel was a fantastic album!

Always had a soft spot for Sailing To America.

Black Planet wrote:That is something. It's surprising the tomb was intact after so many years.

Can't wait to get along and have a proper look at it. Wonder if they'll still build the road over the top of the site now?

Destroying a strip of parkland was unpopular enough ... but this will really annoy people.

I think the road can be kissed goodbye until it's properly excavated. So you're going to go see it? Cool! I love that sort of stuff. I had the best time in Italy this summer wandering the Forum Romanum and Pompeii. Very very cool!

andymackem wrote:Wonder if they'll still build the road over the top of the site now?

Destroying a strip of parkland was unpopular enough ... but this will really annoy people.

why not? clearly the site has been properly excavated and recorded. the finds have been removed for public display. what difference does it make if they now slap a road over the hole?

RicheyJames wrote:

andymackem wrote:Wonder if they'll still build the road over the top of the site now?

Destroying a strip of parkland was unpopular enough ... but this will really annoy people.

why not? clearly the site has been properly excavated and recorded. the finds have been removed for public display. what difference does it make if they now slap a road over the hole?

Some things ought not be built over. Don't get me started.

but that doesn't answer my question. why shouldn't it be built over? i'm all in favour of sites like this being properly investigated but once this is done (as it appears to have been here) then it's just another hole in the ground. isn't it?

Black Planet wrote:I think the road can be kissed goodbye until it's properly excavated. So you're going to go see it? Cool! I love that sort of stuff. I had the best time in Italy this summer wandering the Forum Romanum and Pompeii. Very very cool!

Well, I live about two miles away, and having spent months slating this town as the worst in the world it would be unfair for me not to take an interest when something so remarkable turns up.

Besides, always like a bit of history. There's nothing like hiding in the past to get me over the present

RicheyJames wrote:but that doesn't answer my question. why shouldn't it be built over? i'm all in favour of sites like this being properly investigated but once this is done (as it appears to have been here) then it's just another hole in the ground. isn't it?

The initial objection to the road-widening scheme was about loss of public open land in the park. That still applies and the public space can be reinstated.

Of course the irony is, without the road this would never have been found.

I predict another round of protests, delays to the project and excessive whining when the costs go up and so do the council taxes. The ultimate fate of the road interests me more as an observer than someone actively involved.

andymackem wrote: Besides, always like a bit of history. There's nothing like hiding in the past to get me over the present

Me too.

Richey, when I grew up in Arizona, for miles around there was the desert. Lots of dust and cactus. It's now completely paved over with housing developments and roads.

I realize that "progress" means building over things, but for christs sake, lets keep some of what Used to be, so it can be appreciated by future generations. And if you call me a tree hugger I'm gonna ask SG to slap you for me!

ladies and gentlemen - we have a new hippy!

RicheyJames wrote:ladies and gentlemen - we have a new hippy!

For wanting to see a future which also has a past? Can I join too?

andymackem wrote:

RicheyJames wrote:ladies and gentlemen - we have a new hippy!

For wanting to see a future which also has a past? Can I join too?

Sure. As long as I dont have to be grammatically correct...

Does that mean that I'm now officially retired as HL's hippy?

No it does not. RJ has his opinions and when they concern me being a Hippy he is dead wrong. DEAD WRONG.

And I am old enough to actually REMEMBER Real HIPPIES on the telly...and for christs sake....blow those bastards to kingdom come! Let me load my Uzi....

I am Andrew's Love Goddess....in Case Anyone Was Still Wondering ...What I Am.

Yup, BP!
been there, seen it, got the tour shirt, ate the stew etc...

You gonna help me load my Uzi?

Shoot who you like, but the fact remains that I'm not the hippy.Just what I've been saying all along..............

SG I never thought you a hippy. Never!

Thankyou BP

Utterly awesome find!!! I'm a *huge* Sutton Hoo freak, too. Hmmm. I think I need to move over there, or something...

Sexygoth wrote:Shoot who you like, but the fact remains that I'm not the hippy.Just what I've been saying all along..............

yes, you are a hippy