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I agree, but ...

do you remember this one?

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/4057

This is classed as a motte by the archaeos, but I can't understand why for exactly the reasons you've just mentioned. This, too, is overlooked by higherground right next to it.

Oddly though, many of the stone forts in The Burren, Co. Clare are overlooked by high cliffs ....

In Brampton, Cumbria, there is a hill shown on the OS as a Motte. It's covered in beech trees which disguise its presence - I've no pictures of it (perhaps RockNicker might catch it) - but it is roughly the same size as Silbury Hill. There's a tiny one, also shown as a Motte, that Hob and I have discussed, at Eals, Northumberland. There must be lots of lost prehistoric mounds.

The therapeutic model of Silbury I built of green woodland product, two metres tall, a week ago, has just started steaming.

Yes, I remember the discussions. Bit of a puzzle, Isn't it?