Silbury Hill Wiltshire

Wiltshire , England, United Kingdom
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    Attraction Type:

    Ancient ruins, Historic site

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  • 1

    Avebury, Salisbury and Stonehenge

    ... , Inca or Egyptian history. I spent an hour wondering around the site and then drove to the nearby burial mounds. One such mound is called Silbury Hill, it looks like a hill but it's more like an early pyramid and is the biggest of its kind in Europe. ...

  • 2

    The Mysteries of Avebury

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    ... road we arrived at the West kennett Barrows. Totally fascinating! These barrows are isolated in the countryside in view of  Silbury Hill. They were constructed about 5,500 years ago (400 years before Stonehenge) and used as a tomb for almost 1000 ...

  • 3

    Avebury

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    ... the largest man-made earthwork, can be seen. The summer of 1999 saw the appearance of crop circles amid the fields between Silbury Hill and Avebury. On the earthen perimeter of Avebury, great trees with remarkable root systems stand witness to the local ...

  • 4

    Squares and Circles

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    ... person for an even more gullible audience. After the wheat field we climbed a hill to look at Silbury Hill, a mysterious prehistoric earthwork – archaeologists have found no evidence to suggest a purpose for piling up dirt into a huge conical ...

  • 5

    En vandretur til Avebury

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    Vi spasere til AveBury via xxx og Silbury Hill og East Kennet Long ...

  • 6

    Avebury

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    ... was very pretty, and we walked through the stone circles, then up to the manor and abbey. We drove past Silbury Hill, which is an ancient burial mound, nobody knows why the neolithic inhabitants of this area made such an enormous ...

  • 7

    Avebury / Stonehenge

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    ... you can walk in order to prevent erosion and keep the monument protected. Still, we were able to catch a great view of Silbury Hill, which is Europe's largest megalithic structure. Next up was Stonehenge. A few hours drive and we arrived at "the ...

  • 8

    Sheep poo is hard to clean!

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    ... of barrows, which were speculated to be long narrow covered tunnels, or something like that,  and a humogenous mound, formerly known as Silbury Hill, that was created by putting a bunch of chalk, present in the soil there, in a huge pile and leaving ...

  • 9

    Stones, Barrows, and Long Barrows

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    ... chamber that had been opened and able to enter was barely a sixth of the length of the barrow. Apparently this was built before Silbury Hill and had been used as a communal cemetary for centuries. They just removed old bodies to put new ones in. The ...

  • 10

    Farmer Jim..

    ... spewed my guts up. Drove through Avebury (site of a henge that is far older and much bigger than Stone Henge). Drove past Silbury Hill, the largest man-made earth mound on the planet! I also found that that Uffington White Horse thing, was replicated in ...