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Rhiannon wrote: People are saying it would be a very elaborate spoil heap? Isn't that missing the point.. surely you kill two birds with one stone - you get your life-giving water and you also get a hill that reminds you of iconic natural ones in the landscape like Picked Hill. Could be both at once couldn't it! Marlborough Mound is also next to the water. Hatfield barrow wasn't far off. Willy Howe is right next to the Gypsey Race. Isn't a watery connection likely? That's what I think, just because an initially practical problem caused the need to act in the first place doesn't mean that ritual elements would have been improtant and taken over. You have this spoil from a sacred wet place with lots of springs where water bubbles forth from the earth, why not make it into a ritual hill surrounded by the water rather than transport it further afield as mere spoil. I just think that the guy who wrote this book claims to be a geologist/climatologist. he said there is proof that the water table dropped dramatically at the time and drought was common. Then low and behold you get a hill built with a by product being a flooded area which stores water where others are dry. Seems to crucial to their survival to be a coincidence Reply | with quote | Posted by Gwass 5th May 2009ce 12:18 In reply to: Re: Silbury Hill - Most Plausible Explanation Yet (Rhiannon) |
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