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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?
The thing that bothers me about a 'tip' is you can't actually do anything on it - Silbury really does become something like an Egyptian pyramid (in function). In one of the news reports or films (sorry, can't remember which one) someone states that there is now evidence of a spiral path winding its way round the structure; along with the causeway from the road that indicates there was a way to the top and that something went on up there (unless we accept that the spiral path and causeway were simply to aid the building of the structure and were then covered over/removed.

Dunno WA, just something about the way Silbury looks today (give or take a few meters) that looks right.

just something about the way Silbury looks today (give or take a few meters) that looks right.

I dunno, it strikes me as the opposite. It looks unsettlingly incomplete.

However, this doesn't necessarily strengthen the idea that someone removed the pointy bit. Equally likely, there was originally some sort of monument on top - and THEN it would look perfect I reckon.

(And the Silbury game would work beautifully as well).

Littlestone wrote:
[quote]Dunno WA, just something about the way Silbury looks today (give or take a few meters) that looks right.
I am in agreement with you - an aesthetical marvel - if she was 'flattened' at some point it's reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp's comment that his 'Large Glass' - when dropped and broken in transit - was finally complete!

interesting that the mere notion of it being pointy can be so disorienting to the mental picture of use and purpose, your whole [personal] outlook on that landscape of that period.

I wonder how the 'theories of pointiness' affect theories about the stepped area towards the top too.