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Pete G P
Pete G May 6, 2004 11:33:49
Replying to Pete G

It has been suggested to me that maybe we are looking at this all wrong. Instead of it being a smaller silbury maybe Silbury is a huge emulation of the smaller mound with its semi natural features of a spring and moat.
PeteG

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray May 6, 2004 11:36:58
Replying to Pete G

That makes a lot of sense.

F FourWinds
FourWinds May 6, 2004 11:47:56
Replying to Pete G

Wasn't the fact that this <i>could</i> be natural the first thought but the shape kinda persuaded you otherwise?

See a bump - assume it's natural, but investigate. That way you're only ever in for a pleasant surprise :-)

L Littlestone
Littlestone May 6, 2004 20:09:50
Replying to Pete G

Dating the mound shouldn't be too difficult but I tend to agree that we've got a Silbury prototype here rather than a later scaled down version (why build a smaller version of St Pauls when the original already exists across the road?). Unless, that is, Silbury Hill and the Silbury Mound are contempory and form part of an already huge, egineered lanscape - the mind boggles.