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Silbury Mundi

Littlestone Oct 31, 2007 19:49:36

Replying to moss

Then again there is Tab. XXVL (A prospect of Silbury hill from the spring of the Kennet River: 13. May. 1724). Plate 24 here at http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/plates/24.jpg which does appear to show a step.

moss Nov 1, 2007 08:11:21

Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:

Then again there is Tab. XXVL (A prospect of Silbury hill [i]from the spring of the Kennet River: 13. May. 1724[i/]). Plate 24 here at http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/plates/24.jpg which does appear to show a step.

Which could have a Saxon date,,the step being part of the fortifications....
The people who would have known are the Romans, but there is'nt any evidence of them on the platform I don't think...which of course goes back to the top being levelled at a later date....
Tiompan's point about the three large mounds, Hatfield, Marlborough and Silbury, all being in a roughly triangular position and all situated in the curve of a river means that water was an important part... which probably takes me back to square one on theories ;)