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Silbaby 17

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The Great Bank

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nigelswift Nov 30, 2004 11:02:26

Replying to goffik

But it ain't a bank it's a mound. Surely if the locals had a name for it they'd have said mound or hill or tump or something. I wonder if the owner knows?

goffik Nov 30, 2004 11:31:02

Replying to nigelswift

Point taken, and I'm in total agreement...

But for the sake of TMA, maybe just being part of The Great Mound until the antiquity is proved might be OK?

Maybe? Hmm?

I think that it's genuinely part of the ancient monument complex, personally, for what it's worth (which is very little!) but as has been mentioned elsewhere, the TMA remit is that the sites need to be, and I quote from my notes, proven to be "really fecking old".* That, along with the fact that I've never been keen on the name "Silbaby" myself... Although it has grown on me recently somehow!

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* I'm making this quote up, but you know what I mean...