30th September 2026 - Dean Merewether found

 Well where do you start with the 'Fairford Incident'? Definitely go down in history.

Could it have been an American, Israel or even Iran set-up, if so, it failed miserably.  As the news comes out in dribs and drabs and one of the five arrested men had actually phoned the police an hour before the farmer😎.  Or, just some young lads stealing farm petrol.  The saga continues but don't believe anything you read in the newspapers, well I might go and read the Guardian.  But rumours will abound - lets see where the next bit of the story works out.

There was a glorious drone photo of Silbury Hill this morning taken by a farmer.  Completely surrounded by harvested field, a faint dust of goodness know what on the empty fields and Silbury basked perfectly in the sun.  I have said this before, but Silbury was only one of three mounds built around a similar time. (mines bigger than yours, you can hear the tribal chant;)  one at Marlborough within the grounds of Marlborough College.  The third, now gone, was Hatfield Barrow set in Marden Henge.  

Marlborough College is an upmarket college in  the pretty town of Marlborough.  Always stop at the Polly Tea Room restaurant for scones and tea by the way, real traditional English fare.  And you can see the pretty schoolboys, immaculately dressed, strolling around the town.

Paul always wanted his ashes scattered over Silbury he had a deep and abiding love for the hill but strangely that changed when he came to Yorkshire and he fell in love with Normanby village, he was at his happiest there.  

I have actually climbed Silbury (you are not supposed to) but married to an archaeologist obviously obviously gave me credence.  Trying to remember who was one of the first amateur archaeologist. It was man of the cloth - Dean Merewether no less.  See this early 2008 blog.  I see I had been reading Michael Dames on the subject, his name has been nagging at the back of my mind lately.  Dames produced a beautiful book on Ireland, an author who looked for the magic and Celtic in archaeology but well worth reading.