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...

Cough...

“I take issue with calling Silbury a mound. It’s a structure goddamit – not a ‘mound’ or a ‘hill’ but a structure, the biggest in Europe until modern times, right here in our heartland, unique and worthy of our absolute respect.”

No-one frigging reads anything properly anymore – that’s why I despair sometimes. The ‘don’t climb’ message goes out over and over again but nothing ever gets done... jeeze...

Littlestone 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...

Cough...

“I take issue with calling Silbury a mound. It’s a structure goddamit – not a ‘mound’ or a ‘hill’ but a structure, the biggest in Europe until modern times, right here in our heartland, unique and worthy of our absolute respect.”

No-one frigging reads anything properly anymore – that’s why I despair sometimes. The ‘don’t climb’ message goes out over and over again but nothing ever gets done... jeeze...

You'll be changing your name to BigHardStone soon then?

Littlestone wrote:
Cough...

“I take issue with calling Silbury a mound. It’s a structure goddamit – not a ‘mound’ or a ‘hill’ but a structure, the biggest in Europe until modern times, right here in our heartland, unique and worthy of our absolute respect.”

No-one frigging reads anything properly anymore – that’s why I despair sometimes. The ‘don’t climb’ message goes out over and over again but nothing ever gets done... jeeze...

Perhaps Tom didn't read that earlier post of yours, what with it being in a locked thread and all...