Mrs G has often pointed Silbury out to me on our various wanders around the area, and commented on the way the flattened top blends in with the surrounding hills... You gotta love it!
Yup, I agree with you Goff - the height looks right just as it is (though maybe it did have some sort of structure on top of it in Neolithic times).I'm a bit confused with the latest archaeo claims as I thought it had been known for a long time that the top was used for defensive purposes by the Anglo-Saxons. Are they now saying that much more of the top was removed at that time? Doesn't make much sense - for that amount of removal work/effort you'd think that the top would have been occupied or defended for a fairly long time, and if that were the case wouldn't there be much more archaeological evidence from the medieval period? Dunno, and there hasn't been an English Heritage update since the one for the 8-12 October ;-)