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Ancient Hill’s Holes To Be Filled (Silbury)
BBC | 11-29-2005
Posted on 11/29/2005 3:09:00 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1530796/posts
Roman clues found at ancient hill (UK).
BBC | Saturday, March 10, 2007
Posted on 03/10/2007 7:42:54 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1798602/posts
Work Begins To Uncover Secrets Of Silbury Hill
The Telegraph (UK) | 5-12-2007 | Richard Savill
Posted on 05/12/2007 10:43:08 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1832542/posts
In pictures: Inside Silbury Hill
BBC | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | unattributed
Posted on 11/03/2007 10:05:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1920515/posts
My guess is that the lime allowed good healthy grape vines to grow, and the vineyards produced vino.
this enigmatic structure has fascinated me since I first saw it (with no previous knowledge) heading towards avesbury, but the article really doesn’t say much at all. I would assume a great deal was/will be learned from studies on excavated items, but not of the nature that works for journalism.
It’s claimed that Silbury Hill isunique in the UK (and indeed in Europe),however it does appear to have at least
one extant relative, and a close one geographcically
( and in terms of scale), at that, laying only a few miles to it’s east in the sleepy town of Marlborough.
The Marlborough Mound is Located in the private grounds of Marlborough College, and has suffered Much more over the course of history Than it’s more famous cousin, utilized By the Normans after the conquest as a
Motte for a castle (as was Silbury), used As a garden feature (the “shell grotto” is Still there), covered with trees, boxed in By the college buildings(making it virtually Invisible)…….and the final indignity, The placing of a water tank on its summit!.
It’s re-use as a motte appears to Have led to it’s being ignored as a contempory of Silbury Hill, although plenty of evidence to it’s pre-historic origin is extant.
Isn’t it about time a serious and Extensive archaeological investigation was Carried out on Silbury’s “twin”, even with the damage done to the Marlborough Mound it could Well shed light on the origins and uses of
Silbury Hill and of course it’s self.
further thought led me to think of
Dragon Hill, by the uffington white horse, some 16 miles to the North East of Silbury.
Although this hill is almost certainly a natural chalk mound ( though almost perfectly conical), the summit WAS at some time in antiquity levelled to produce a truncated cone similar in appearance to Silbury Hill and Marlborough Mound.
this is of course purely conjecture on my part......but perhaps it was modified to appear like the two man made mounds or they were created to look like it.
Furthermore, There is something Silbury Hill, Marlborough Mound and Dragon Hill all have in common, they all appear to have been utilised as mottes in the early Norman period, or forts in earlier periods........
And in various places around the UK I’ve seen surviving mottes(with or without surviving stonework) with strikingly similar profiles and of a similar scale.
which leads me to posit a tentative theory: were these man made mounds common in the landscape, and most just were utilised as mottes, leading historians/archaeologists to assume they were purpose built during the Norman period Silbury being a lucky exception.
before it’s assumed i’m a crank....laughs....I’m not promoting this theory, which I personally find unlikely(though possible)....just throwing it out there a discussion.