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Silbury Hill

Silbury Mundi

moss M
moss Oct 31, 2007 07:05:56
Replying to wideford

"The riddle of Silbury, unsolved after 4,300 years"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/richard_morrison/article2771879.ece

Someone is having fun with foolish speculation....

"All that effort, planning and ingenuity, gone into producing a monument to a belief, a person, a regime, an event, that must have seemed frightfully important at the time, yet is now totally erased from human chronicle and consciousness. Few other places on the planet induce so profound a sense of mankind’s microscopic insignificance when measured on cosmic timescales. "

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 31, 2007 07:29:43
Replying to moss

Great minds! I was just about to add that to the Meg Poems thread. Including the bit that precedes it -

Very exciting. But I hope the diggers don’t come up with too many “solutions” to the mystery of Silbury and its inscrutable entourage of henges and barrows. To gaze on that prodigious pimple, especially with a mist swirling over the downs, is to feel both the ambition and the vainglory of Homo sapiens.

In a single word, what's the main appeal of Silbury? Mystery.

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