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Ah there's the problem of Stukeleys Evelavated drawings.
Most of his pics he seems to be floating 30ft in the air and he draws himself in his own pictures drawing the scene from the ground. (I'm off for a quick lie down...)

I didn't think that Silbury would be visible from WB circles so I went there and Bloody El! You Can see Silbury, but not from the field with the stones in.
Dave Field wrote in the last issue of WAM that he thinks the Circles were actualy at another site on higher ground.
The WB Circles Site on OS maps is actualy a natural sarcen drift.
Just to complicate things I think the drawing is from Beckhampton Penning.
PeteG

Stukeley's drawings in respect of the floaty business and the intervention of phenomenonology was the subject of a recent article in WAM I think,...I would look it up but I am still drunk from last night and my brain hurts....There is a book on this sort of wotsit....Christopher Tilley, a phenomenology of landscape: places,paths, and monuments, published I am sure by Berg around 1995. There was also (as featured in The Office) a song by the Muppetts...

phenomenon, doo doo da d-do, phenomenon, doo doo da d-do, phenomenon doo doo da d-do, da d-do, da d-do, da da da da da da da da...

Gotta say tho mate, it bloody well looks the part, i was convinced it was the remains of a circle.
Until my bonfire was urinated upon by you and your bloody vast archaeological library. GIT ..