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Steve Gray Apr 25, 2004 18:58:36
Replying to nigelswift

Rather than examining what Silbury looks like from various other places, what about how those other places look from the top of Silbury? Was it built that height so that someone standing on top of had a particular view of somewhere else?

M Moth
Moth Apr 25, 2004 19:00:54
Replying to Steve Gray

I've wondered about that Steve, but unfortunately not until after we've not been allowed up the bloody thing....

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Moth

F FourWinds
FourWinds Apr 25, 2004 19:35:04
Replying to Steve Gray

I was heading towards suggesting this too.

A fantastic study was done in Sligo by Stefan Burgh and published as a paer called "Landscape of the Monuments".

In this he has taken the lanscape that can be seen from a monument and where it can be seen from. The diagrams are mind blowing. I've never seen a study like it by anyone else, of anywhere else.

This work had a large impact on me. He didn't really prove anything, but the scale of the work is enormous. As I was wondering along discovering cairns and stone rows today I kept thinking along these lines: Why here? Where can I be seen from? Where can I see?

I came across a previously unrecorded pile of stones today. By applying various checkpoints I know have I am fairly confident that it is a genuine cairn.