Work Begins To Uncover Secrets Of Silbury Hill

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-12-2007 | Richard Savill

[blam]

"And there’s also Wat’s Dyke, which is centuries older than Offa’s Dyke, and may have inspired it."

Ah yes. Wodenes Dyke.

"In its most perfect state it began at Andover, in Hampshire, ran through the counties of Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire, and terminated in the “Severn Sea” or Bristol Channel. It was called Wodenes Dyke by the Saxons, contracted into Wondes-dyke, and corrupted to Wans-dyke, as Wodenes-daeg is into Wednes-day."

[Sam Ketcham]

Ah found ma thrill, on Silbury Hilllll.... Sing it Fats!

[Fledermaus]

They needed a plateau to hang-glide from.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba49/ba49news.html#inbrief

Dyke redated

Wat’s Dyke,a 40 mile earthwork which runs parallel to Offa’s Dyke in the Welsh Marches, has been dated to the 5th century. The dyke was assumed to be a near-contemporary predecessor of Offa’s Dyke, built by the 8th century Mercian king. But excavations at Maes-y-Clawdd near Oswestry by Shropshire’s archaeological service have uncovered a small fire site, eroded shards of Romano-British pottery and quantities of charcoal, radiocarbon dated to between AD411-561. The discovery appears to link the dyke with the post-Roman kingdom which centred on Wroxeter.

[SunkenCiv]

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