Yesterday I took down my copy of The Modern Antiquarian which admit I haven't looked for a while. It opened on the page where Julian Cope talks about The Silbury Game describing how from the Ridgeway walking towards Avebury, the top portion of Silbury seems to ride on the back of Waden Hill.
I have copied the extract that caught my eye below:

Quote:
It is the unspoken rules of the Silbury Game which give the clearest clue of the direct origins of the great mound. For nowhere except upon the Marlborough downs did the Ancients spend so much time and preparation on the psychological effects of their monuments. And during 1995CE, having first noticed this bizarre phenomenon the previous year, I walked every trackway upon the Downs until I understood the effect the people of Kennet were trying to create. And having spent months of time walking repeatedly through the Avebury landscape, one place seems to have been the original inspiration for Silbury.

That place is upon the Yorkshire Moors in a mysterious and sacred area of forests, rivers and Neolithic trackways. And not just one but two ‘pre-Silbury Silburys’ work here in tandem just a few miles north of Willy Howe and Ba’l Hill, the two Neolithic mounds which Aubrey Burl had first proposed as the inspiration behind Silbury. For this reason, I suggest that the building of Willy Howe and Ba’l Hill so close together was originally intended to replicate these two proto-hill alters as purpose built and controllable analogues alongside the Gypsey Race. The two sacred hills in question are called Blakey Topping and Howden ….. Unquote: (he leaves the last sentence unfinished for some reason)

I took my questions about this in relation to Silbury to a small discussion forum about Avebury and was helpfully pointed in the direction of the field notes on TMA about Blakey Topping and Howden Hill. The field notes were all excellent but I particularly liked the post on Howden Hill made in 2000/2003 by someone called Porkbeast. I want to visit Rudston later in the year and will definitely try to include a walk up Howden Hill. Porkbeast mentions Tolkien and in fact I do have a poster of an illustration by Tolkien called "The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water" which does indeed look very similar to Howden Hill.

So I have just come here to say thank you - TMA is a valuable resource, I have always found the field notes to be superb.