Silbury Hill 180
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tomwatts wrote:
....Maybe the size of Silbury fools people into treating it like a natural hill, made up of solid rock with a layer of soil over it, and as old and tough as the hills.

....I think we should stop calling it a hill, and start referring to it as what it is.....a mound...

Oh no you've used the mound word!!!!

bladup wrote:
tomwatts wrote:
....Maybe the size of Silbury fools people into treating it like a natural hill, made up of solid rock with a layer of soil over it, and as old and tough as the hills.

....I think we should stop calling it a hill, and start referring to it as what it is.....a mound...

Oh no you've used the mound word!!!!
I once did that, Whilst at Marlborough college. ;)