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Silbury Hill

(sil)barry white

Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Oct 12, 2005 09:02:57
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

"It is dangerous to mention any "spoil heap" when writing about Silbury. Too many think that is what it is."

People think it's a SPOIL HEAP?? That's utterly daft. Are you having me on? You don't dig something out (what, by the way? the roman road? but that's raised up surely) and then go to immense effort to carry the waste soil to the top of a large hill, you'd spread it out in lots of places. Oh you are having me on aren't you.

I Ishmael
Ishmael Oct 12, 2005 09:31:48
Replying to Rhiannon

>Oh you are having me on aren't you.
Fraid not. There are serious people in positions of power who view it as a neolithic rubbish dump.

P PeterH
PeterH Oct 12, 2005 10:58:33
Replying to Rhiannon

It seems that my mention of a "china clay spoil heap" upset VBB. It was not my intention to suggest that Silbury was a spoil heap, but just to point out that an impression of what it might have looked like if it was ever left white, was to take at a look at a Cornish china clay heap.

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