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I seem to remember reading that certain measurements at both sites match up quite closely...
Yes, I remember that as well but I don't have a reference either. If Stonehenge was brought from elsewhere then the fact that the area it now occupies corresponds (closely) to the area at the top of Silbury, it leads to the not unreasonable conclusion (taking in other factors as well*) that that's where Stonehenge came from (unless those particular dimensions held some special meaning to prehistoric builders, in which case other examples might be found elsewhere).

The idea that Stonehenge, or a Stonehenge-type structure, once occupied the top of Silbury is not as wild as it might seem - there are examples from other parts of the world of temples, even whole cities, being dismantled and then reassembled elsewhere, or old structures being deserted and new, similar structures being built elsewhere.

* http://www.eternalidol.com/ “What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”

That's one heck of an attack on Atkinson (again).
Its only a couple of years since EH brought itself to acknowledge he was incompetent. But saying he deliberately twisted the evidence, well...
I think its an interpretation, at best, and not one I'd like to make. And its all based upon a single remark, "howling savages". Who knows how much it was meant, and what the context of the conversation was?

Littlestone wrote:
The idea that Stonehenge, or a Stonehenge-type structure, once occupied the top of Silbury is not as wild as it might seem - there are examples from other parts of the world of temples, even whole cities, being dismantled and then reassembled elsewhere, or old structures being deserted and new, similar structures being built elsewhere.
I would go more for the mound being erected in memory of the circle of stone that once stood beneath it. I doubt the structure of the chalk blocks at the top of the mound would take the weight. That saying, there is still the lingering bluestone mis-history to consider...