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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 ...
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 ...
The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. By the Iron Age , the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman period .
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]
In 1866, Lord Brownlow who lived at Ashridge House, tried to enclose the adjoining Berkhamsted Common with 5-foot (2 m) steel fences in an attempt to claim it as part of his estate. In England from early Anglo-Saxon times, Common land was an area of land which the local community could use as a resource.
Storm over Silbury Hill, 2008, by David Inshaw . David Inshaw (born 21 March 1943 in Wednesfield , Staffordshire , England) is a British artist who sprang to public attention in 1973 when his painting The Badminton Game was exhibited at the ICA Summer Studio exhibition in London. [ 1 ]
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, built c. 3000–2500 BC The Neolithic site of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, southern England (c. 2400 BC), is one example of the large ceremonial monuments constructed across the British Isles in this period. The Neolithic period in the British Isles lasted from c. 4100 to c. 2,500 BC. [1]
English: Silbury Hill, as seen from halfway up the slope of the hill on which West Kennet Long Barrow is located in Avebury, Wiltshire. This is a photo of listed building number 1010138 . Date