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Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site . At 39.3 metres (129 ft) high, [ 1 ] the hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe [ 2 ] and one of the largest in the world; it is similar in ...
State Street Subway, rail transit tunnel, 1943, 4.9 miles (7.9 km) long, CTA 'L' Red Line under State Street in Chicago; Tunnel Hill State Trail tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 543-foot-long (166 m) former Cairo and Vincennes Railroad tunnel now part of Tunnel Hill State Trail, used as a hiking and bike rail trail, between Tunnel Hill and Vienna ...
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It is near Silbury Hill (about 5 miles (8 km) due west of the mound), Hatfield Barrow, Sherrington Mound, Manton Barrow, and Marlborough Common barrow cemetery. The mound is over 18 metres (59 ft) tall from the present ground surface and its summit has a height of 149.76 metres (491.3 ft) OD. The basal diameter is 83 metres (272 ft), and it ...
Romano-British ritual activity is known from the broader area around the long barrow; several shafts were dug around the Shallow Head Springs near Silbury Hill in this period, into which a range of items were placed. [60] In addition, a building that possibly served a religious function was established south of Silbury Hill. [59]
Turn Hole Tunnel, Jim Thorpe, Central Railroad of New Jersey (at the Glen Onoko access, abandoned but popular with Lehigh Gorge State Park guests) [41] [42] Closed to all access by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the owners of the tunnel, in 2023 because of rocks falling from the ceiling.
Natural Tunnel State Park is a Virginia state park, ... Tunnel Hill Trail [6] 0.7 miles (1.1 km) Easy/Moderate Tunnel Trail into Gorge [6] 0.3 miles (0.48 km)
Route 15 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut that runs 83.53 miles (134.43 km) from a connection with New York's Hutchinson River Parkway in Greenwich, Connecticut, to its northern terminus intersecting with Interstate 84 (I-84) in East Hartford, Connecticut.