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Silbury Hill

Bert is innocent?

FourWinds F
FourWinds Oct 10, 2001 12:07:38
Replying to FourWinds

I've just realised 'which' Maes Knoll you are refering too. It is the one that joins on to the Wansdyke near Norton Malreward, Bristol, and the Wansdyke is the very same one that JC was refering to.

I honestly think this is what it seems ... a promentary fort and nothing more. It may well have been placed on an older structure. It may well have been modelled on Silbury.

Has anybody ever conjectured that Silbury was just the base to a fort that was never finished?

M morfe
morfe Oct 10, 2001 13:51:12
Replying to FourWinds

Hi FW,

Have you read 'The Silbury Treasure' by Michael Dames? The base of the mound has radiating twine, laid out like spokes, and the construction has much evidence of ritualism, this would point to other than a fort, in any case, wasn't the landscape of Avebury created in peace time?

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