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"Blakey Topping is a natural hill, but from the right direction (including from the stone circle) it is very Silbury-esque".

That's the wrong way round, I think. Silbury is Blakey Topping-esque. Silbury is also very Sugarloaf Hill-esque. Now we need to find a word to replace the name of these hills. If you find a fossilised raindrop, in sandstone, and turn it the other way up, then you get the shape. It's not really a fossilised raindrop - it's the mark made in wet sand by a raindrop or hailstone. Anyone working sandstone, in times gone by, will have encountered these.

StoneGloves wrote:
"Blakey Topping is a natural hill, but from the right direction (including from the stone circle) it is very Silbury-esque".

That's the wrong way round, I think. Silbury is Blakey Topping-esque.

Ha ha! Yes, I wasn't suggesting that Blakey Topping was modelled on Silbury SG! Unless EH have got their dates very wrong.

Not sure what nomenclature you are suggesting though. Fossilised-Rainbow-Hills is a bit of a mouthful. :-)