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Now that English Heritage will no longer be leaving a time capsule in Silbury Hill, taking heed it seems of the views of conservators, the spiritual beliefs of others and the words of Lord Avebury who wrote in the The Guardian (19 July 2007) that, "Describing the object as a time capsule means that EH expects it to be retrieved at some future date, requiring further tunnelling..." is it not both desirable and logical that Prof. Atkinson's door, with its S logo, and the lintel above it bearing the date 1968 will now also be removed? In our view these items, along with the time capsule, are no more than messages to the future saying, "Look, we were here, here in 1968 and again in 2008" instead of conserving Silbury to as near as possible its original condition.

We are unconvinced that leaving the door and lintel in place would serve a useful structural role once the tunnel is filled or that they couldn't be removed with minimal disruption. In fact the removal of the door and lintel when conservation at Silbury is complete would ensure that future remedial work would be unnecessary when these items start to degrade. Consequently, for both practical and symbolic reasons we call for the removal of the door and lintel to storage elsewhere thus finally, irrevocably and very visibly "correcting the mistakes of the past."