Bullsh.. baffles brains......No it doesn't!

A story came up in many of Friday's newspapers and Sarah Knapton, science editor for the Daily Telegraph, has this headline:
"STONEHENGE TUNNEL COULD WRECK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE!"
Messers (Sic) Darvill, Jacques and Rhind Tutt have chosen this time to announce the discovery of one the earliest settlements close to Stonehenge - at a place called Blick Mead and say the Mesolithic camp could be destroyed if the A303 is buried into a tunnel.   The encampment apparently dates from around 4,000BC and it is thought the site was originally occupied by hunter gatherers returning to Britain after the Ice Age......well.....you know what thought did.....planted a feather and thought it would grow a hen!!  
These archaeologists have found flint at Blick Mead (found all over South Wiltshire, incidentally) and apparently, other signs of occupation on the site.   Quite frankly, the finding of arty facts of any kind is not new and will continue to be found all over Britain till Hell freezes over.   But I suppose it keeps them in a job and pays the mortgage!
Comments by the thousand have been written since the PM's announcement on 1st December, that the A303 is to "go under ground", past the World Heritage Site of Stonehenge or WHS, most of which, express the procedure to be detrimental to the archaeology in the area and history of England.  Actually, anything that happened yesterday - is history.   Are we therefore saying, that building the town of Amesbury, the new and continuing development at Solstice Park and the building of the Holiday Inn, did not throw up arty facts of any kind??  I've heard very few complaints about archaeology disturbance from anyone on that front.  With regard to disturbance of archaeology in the area, it would be pertinent to assume that the Geologists and Archaeologists who will design said tunnel, will have the necessary X-ray equipment to understand where this or that bone is to be found.   We really need to get this right in our minds, the construction will be a
"Long DEEP Bore Tunnel" i.e. well under ground maybe even 40 meters, not just simply "a digger" type construction at upper level.   If one Google's "Tunnel Boring Machine" or TBM - Wikipedia comes up with an easy to understand explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine  It says: TBMs have the advantages of limiting the disturbance to the surrounding ground and producing a smooth tunnel wall. This significantly reduces the cost of lining the tunnel, and makes them suitable to use in heavily urbanised areas.   There is also an explanation of this method of tunnelling, weighing up the cost of using these machines against the cost of drill and blast and says cost is lower due to the efficiency of this method coupled with making the project shorter.   Here is the diagram of tunnelling under Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada.

The average deceased is buried 6 - 10 feet underground and even Neolithic man would not have had the where with all or tools to bury their dead or arty facts below this level.
Therefore, why on earth would we allow a "new find" to prevent progress in getting the A303 moving, the economy evolving and the reduction of "rat running" through local villages.  
And for the "anti tunnel" brigade.....if it's what's on the table, lets have some of it and get the job done!!!   Too much money and time has been wasted!

I draw your attention to a well known song:
"There was I a-diggin'-this-'ole"
and we all know the tune.....after three.......

 There I was, a-digging this hole
A hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was
There was I, digging it deep
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep
When along, comes this bloke in a bowler which he lifted and scratched his head
Well we looked down the hole, poor demented soul and he said
Do you mind if I make a suggestion?
Don't dig there, dig it elsewhere
Your digging it round and it ought to be square
The shape of it's wrong, it's much too long
And you can't put hole where a hole don't belong
I ask, what a liberty eh
Nearly bashed him right in the bowler
Well there was I, stood in me hole
Shovelling earth for all I was worth
There was him, standing up there
So grand and official with his nose in the air
So I gave him a look sort of sideways and I leaned on my shovel and sighed
Well I lit me a fag and having took a drag I replied
I just couldn't bear, to dig it elsewhere
I'm digging it round co's I don't want it square
And if you disagree it doesn't bother me
That's the place where the holes gonna be
Well there we were, discussing this hole
A hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was
Well it's not there now, the ground's all flat
And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat
And that's that