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nigelswift wrote:
I haven't seen the programme but I gather it is being theorised that the top of the hill may have been removed, maybe a thousand years ago.

Does anyone know what evidence is being offered for this? Finding artefacts of that period doesn't prove much, does it?

No it doesn't, in fact recent finds of just two arrowheads and evidence of a large post hole from the Anglo-Saxon/Norman period are hardly indications that there was any serious alteration of the summit or any extended period of occupation there; wouldn't rule it out completely however, but the theory needs backing up with a lot more archaeological evidence.

Assuming there was a 'tip' to the Hill, this would further reinforce Julian's TMA assertion re the Silbury Game wouldn't it? A great shining white pyramid (or cone, optically speaking) sliding over Waden Hill as you travel down the Ridgeway?

Question is, does a few feet extra change the nature of Silbury III and it's place ... it may put some 'viewing platform' theories (I'm thinking "Silbury Treasure") to bed, but then if one person could stand atop it, then maybe not. I'm not as well read re Silbury as I'd like to be.

WA