Are we visiting this area-Mara & Delphine? At over 30m tall, Silbury Hill is every bit as majestic as Stonehenge. At precisely the time Stonehenge’s giant sarsen trilithon stones were being erected, this enormous earthen mound was also being constructed 25 miles to the north. Why? Well after a decade of new research archaeologists finally have the answers, but they weren’t easy to find. The Hill posed difficult questions. In the form that we see it today, the Silbury monument is the product of four millennia of weathering, erosion and modification. Exposure to the elements and intense human and animal activity making their marks across the surface. But the mystery mound’s hidden contents had puzzled antiquarians and archaeologists for centuries. pasthorizonspr/index.php/archives/06/2014/silbury-hill-the-largest-pre-historic-mound-in-europe
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:24:26 +0000
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