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	The White Goddess - Articles - Silbury Hill - 4500 Year Old Megalithic Mystery.
		Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, lies about one mile south of the Avebury Henge and is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments, the Avebury Circle, Marlborough Mound and West Kennet Long Barrow.
		Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, lies about one mile south of the Avebury Henge and occupies a low-lying site and except at certain points in the landscape, notably from the West Kennet Long Barrow, is barely visible.
		Silbury Hill is the largest man made mound in Europe, the second largest is Marlborough Mound just a few miles to the east in the grounds of Marlborough School.
	www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk /articles/silbury.html (1502 words)

	Earth Mysteries: Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
		Silbury Hill occupies a low-lying site and except at certain points in the landscape (notably from the West Kennet Long Barrow from which this photograph was taken), it does not protrude significantly above the horizon.
		Silbury can clearly be seen in the background, its summit in line with the horizon, in a drawing made by William Stukeley of part of the Sanctuary in 1723.
		Another explanation argues that Silbury Hill could have been used as an accurate solar observatory by means of the shadows cast by the mound itself on the carefully levelled plain to the north, towards Avebury.
	www.britannia.com /wonder/emsilbry.html (919 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 2002: Fragments
		Silbury Hill is believed by some to be the centerpiece of a series of ancient religious structures to be found in southern England, including, among others, Stonehenge and Avebury.
		Silbury Hill is a massive, ancient earth mound that sits at the heart of a sprawling religious metropolis that had dominated southern England for thousands of years before the coming of Christianity.
		Silbury Hill was built on top of a large chalk outcropping from chalk bricks covered with layers of earth to prevent its rapid dissolution from wind and weather.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2002/Summer/Fragments (3675 words)

	Silbury Hill
		Silbury Hill is a massive artificial flat-topped mound which is located just south of the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, England.
		Legends about the hill abound; local folklore holds that the mound is the burial place of an obscure king named Sil or Zel, or of a knight who wore golden armour, or of a solid gold horse and rider.
		It has been noticed that the hill appears to be a kind of centre point, aligning prehistoric trails or roadways which were later resurfaced and used by the Romans as well as aligning a number of standing stones.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ci.kerr/silbury.html (816 words)

	Life - Poetry in Motion: Silbury Hill, Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Silbury hill, which lies between the village Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow is entirely man-made, stands approximately 40 metres high and covers about 5 acres of low lying land.
		Although the hill is right by the road passed West Kennet Long Barrow it is protected from climbers by a fence at the bottom, and another near the flat top of the hill, so we were unable to visit it properly.
		So the reasons for the creation of Silbury hill remain a mystery, but at the end of the day I feel these places wouldn’t be nearly so intriguing if we did understand them.
	forbesweb.typepad.com /poetryinmotion/2003/10/silbury_hill_wi.html (438 words)

	Stones of England - Silbury Hill earth mound
		Archaeologists calculate that Silbury Hill was built about 4600 years ago and that it took 18 million man-hours to dump and shape 248,000 cubic metres (8.75 million cu ft) of earth on top of a natural hill.
		Nothing has ever been found on Silbury Hill: at its core there is only clay, flints, turf, moss, topsoil, gravel, freshwater shells, mistletoe, oak, hazel, sarsen stones, ox bones, and antler tines.
		Another legend states that the mound holds a lifesize solid gold statue of King Sil and yet a third, that the Devil was carrying an apron of soil to drop on the citizens of Marlborough, but he was stopped by the priests of nearby Avebury.
	www.stonepages.com /england/silburyhill.html (349 words)

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		Silbury Hill, located near Avebury village (Avebury is a village within a stone circle) Has been the topic of much discussion over the past few years.
		The investigation of Silbury was spurred by the sudden appearance in May 2000 of a 2m (6.Sft) wide by 12m (39ft) deep hole at the summit of the hill, possibly brought on by unusually heavy rain.
		Silbury had previously been excavated at least six times, in 1766-7, 1849, 1867, 1886, 1922 and 1968-70,and it was necessary to find out what effect these earlier excavations were continuing to have on Silbury.
	www.theoldpath.com /dsilbury.htm (1005 words)

	Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
		Silbury Hill is the largest purpose-built structure in Europe, but its exact purpose is a mystery.
		I don't know if the linguists at Websters were thinking of Silbury Hill when they wrote that definition, but they might well have been, for this mysterious conical hill on the Wiltshire plains near Marlborough, defies all the efforts of modern scientists to discover its purpose.
		Silbury Hill is on the A4 between West Kennet and Beckhampton, Wiltshire.
	www.britainexpress.com /articles/Ancient_Britain/silbury-hill.htm (623 words)

	Silbury Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Silbury Hill was built during the final phase of megalithic construction in the Avebury area, followed only by the work at the Sanctuary.
		The present site of Silbury Hill has been closed to the public since the 1970's, the thin chalky soil being very suseptable to erosion by sightseers and their like.
		Today, the only feet that walk the hill are the occasional sheep which maintain the smooth grass cover by controlled grazing of the shrubs which would obscure the enigmatic sharp profile.
	www.hippy.com /albion/silbury_hill.htm (491 words)

	Silbury Hill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Atkinson dug numerous trenches at the site and reopened the 1849 tunnel, finding material suggesting a Neolithic date although none of his (Click link for more info and facts about radiocarbon date) radiocarbon dates are considered reliable by modern standards.
		Few prehistoric (A man-made object taken as a whole) artefacts have ever been found on Silbury Hill: at its core there is only clay, flints, turf, moss, topsoil, gravel, freshwater shells, mistletoe, oak, hazel, sarsen stones, ox bones, and antler tines.
		Moses B.Cotworth, at the beginning of this century, stated that Silbury was a giant (Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial) sundial to determine seasons and the true length of the year.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/silbury_hill.htm (865 words)

	Silbury Hill - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Silbury Hill
		The mound is estimated to have required 18 million hours of labour to complete, which suggests considerable organization of workforce in keeping with a social structure regarded as later Neolithic, with a paramount chief in control of the territory.
		Local legend suggested that the hill contained a lifesize statue of King Sil and his horse, but no significant finds have ever been made.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Silbury+Hill (255 words)

	Avebury-Nearby-Sites
		Silbury, the biggest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, can be adequately regarded and photographed from nearby viewing areas, but access to the hill is not permitted.
		Silbury is a grass-covered chalk mound in the shape of a flat-topped cone
		The height of Silbury is 40 metres (130 feet), diameter 160 metres (522 feet) at the base, and the monument covered 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres).
	www.stonehenge-avebury.net /aburysites.html (932 words)

	British Archaeology magazine, May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		But he did reach conclusions about the structure of the hill, which he believed to comprise an initial smallish mound of gravel and turf, surmounted later by a second mound of chalk with a surrounding ditch, over which was constructed the massive chalk mound that we see today.
		The ditch surrounding Silbury Hill is often considered a mere quarry from which the mound material was derived.
		Silbury is not only close to the River Kennet, but also at a geologically liminal position, on the very edge of the chalk where it abuts the river's flood plain.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba70/feat2.shtml (1967 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Geophysical and ground surveys of Silbury Hill, a 120 ft high chalk mound formed in a Wiltshire valley around 4,500 years ago, suggest that it was built in a spiral fashion, and not made from a series of flat tiers like a wedding cake as previously thought.
		Silbury Hill, which lies close to the stone circles of Avebury, Wilts, was an astonishing achievement of prehistoric Britain.
		Small bores were drilled vertically into the hill and sound waves used to scan its interior for cavities and loose chalk.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/20/nhill20.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/02/20/ixhome.html (775 words)

	Silbury Hill
		In 1849 a side tunnel was dug from near the bottom to the centre of the mound, again no traces of any artefacts were recovered but some information on the structure of the mound were gleaned.
		The hill is also said to have been dropped by the Devil, who was carrying earth to bury Avebury.
		Paul Devereux has suggested that the hill is the focus for the whole of the Avebury Neolithic complex.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/silbury.html (268 words)

	SILBURY-HILL
		Despite tales of the gold horse that lay within, the hill was left untouched until the modern era; plunderers were no doubt discouraged by the need to bore through so much earth.
		Even in a normal spring the hill is surrounded by a massive water filled moat, also the near by road blocks the original drainage ways trapping the water at it's base.
		It is Reiterated that EH and NT are not directly responsible for the desperate state of Silbury Hill and that both organizations require better funding.
	www.btinternet.com /~orionmoon/SILBURY.htm (622 words)

	Silbury Hill - Prehistoric Earth Mound - Ancient Sites Directory
		Silbury Hill is situated to the north side of the A4 between Marlborough and Beckhampton in Wiltshire.
		Silbury Hill is an imposing sight standing 130 feet high (about 40 meters), the base of the mound covers over 5 acres and the flattened top is around 100 feet across.
		The public have been restricted from climbing Silbury Hill for some years now, but despite the signs and the fences some people still persist.
	www.henge.org.uk /wiltshire/silbury.html (438 words)

	No access to Silbury Hill - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Silbury Hill is an ecological refuge: home to a fairly rare mollusc - an unusual snail with a pale Yellow shell with a distinctive Brown spiral marking.
		The snail has been used as a motif in prehistoric burials(an alleged but unproven reason for Silbury Hill's construction), and in an excavation of a prehistoric burials it has been observed that "A woman’s skull was found surrounded by snail shells, many of which were perforated".
		The snail or old English 'Dodman' is an appropriate creature for Slbury Hill as a Ley Line point: "Scientists have found that snails perceive extremely weak magnetic fields by which they navigate" such as the leyline 'Dragon Path' present at Silbury Hill as a known Ley Line focus?.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=139871 (506 words)

	Silbury Hill Protest
		Silbury Hill is a spectacular and unique ancient place, it's the tallest Neolithic monument in Europe and is about 4700 years old.
		A hole appeared in the top of Silbury Hill in May 2000 caused by the collapse of the covering of a shaft dug in 1776.
		A peaceful protest was held on Saturday 19th May 2001 to highlight the dire state of Silbury Hill and the underfunding of the care of ancient monuments.
	www.druidry.org /obod/news/silbury_hill.html (884 words)

	SILBURY SHAFT COLLAPSE: THE LATEST FACTS by Ó Janet Ossebaard & Bert Janssen, 2001
		I thought Silbury had gone dormant this autumn, but when Bert Janssen and I returned to Wiltshire for a few days in December 2000, it turned out that Silbury is still very active indeed.
		Furthermore the fence at the bottom of the hill was reinforced with barbed wire and two guards in a security car were put close to that fence to make sure nobody would climb Silbury Hill.
		On a few occasions a small group climbed Silbury Hill at night time, when it was too dark to be seen and the guards had left their position.
	www.cropcircleconnector.com /Bert/bert2001a.html (2388 words)

	The Wiltshire Web - Silbury Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		On the North and West sides an enormous ditch, now largely filled with silt and rubble, is the source of the chalk and earth of which the mound is constructed.
		Silbury Hill lies just off the A4 between Devizes and Marlborough in the Winterbourne-Kennet valley.
		The hill was constructed over 4000 years ago and like so many other ancient sites in Wiltshire, its purpose still remains something of a mystery.
	www.wiltshire-web.co.uk /history/silbury.htm (184 words)

	Weird Wiltshire - News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It is believed that instead of completely filling in the vertical shaft, which went from the top to the bottom of the hill, the miners partly filled it but then inserted branches and turf a few feet from the surface and capped the hole with a plug.
		Also speaking last week, Lord Avebury, whose family bought the hill in the 19th century but vested it in the nation, said he urgently wanted to see some tangible signs action was being taken to prevent any further collapse of the hill top.
		The spokesman said the steel covering erected over the hill initially was removed when it was discovered that it was not keeping water out of the shaft.
	www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk /silbury/190401.html (929 words)

	Silbury Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Recent seismological research on Silbury Hill (undertaken because of fear that old excavations had weakened the structure) has revealed a spiral path to the top - rather than the stepped cone previously accepted.
		Geophysical and ground surveys of Silbury show it was built in a spiral, and not made from a series of flat layers as previously thought.
		With the top of the hill is about 130 feet (40 m.) above the surface, it was quite windy up there, but each time the sun broke through the clouds, it would be so warm that I had to take off my jacket.
	www.soul-guidance.com /houseofthesun/silburyhill.htm (1031 words)

	Silbury Hill
		This hill is the biggest man made mound in Europe.
		The hill was built around 2500BC, formed with some of the chalk from the great henge at Avebury and built in a complex lattice structure of in-filled chalk walls.
		The hill has been excavated several times but no traces of burial have been found.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/wiltshire/wiltshire2.html (233 words)

	Archaeologists Date Tool Discarded 4,500 Years Ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A scrap of antler has proved that Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in Europe, was completed around 4,500 years ago.
		This 'hill' has a base circumference of 1630ft (494m), and reaches a height of some130ft (41m).
		Silbury Hill covers an area of five acres and was built as a series of six terraces.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/579302/posts (2345 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Silbury Hill IS reclassified (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The guardians of a hill in Wiltshire who campaigned to have it reclassified as a building rather than open countryside succeeded yesterday in their attempt to keep ramblers away.
		Silbury Hill is actually an archaeological site of great importance - an artificial prehistoric mound, and the largest neolithic construction of its type in Europe, according to English Heritage.
		The construction of Silbury Hill was recently dated to between 2800 and 2600BC.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=2146411695 (895 words)

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