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tiompan wrote:
They highlight the low lying , riverine and particularly local spring connection with Silbury .
Fits nicely with Sherrington too...

"surrounded by a moat, which always contains water, being fed from the springs arising in the nearby hills. The underlying rock is chalk, but the settlement is based on river gravels"

nigelswift wrote:
tiompan wrote:
They highlight the low lying , riverine and particularly local spring connection with Silbury .
Fits nicely with Sherrington too...

"surrounded by a moat, which always contains water, being fed from the springs arising in the nearby hills. The underlying rock is chalk, but the settlement is based on river gravels"

As is the Hamstead Marshall sites
http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1007924

Three mottes so close together ?