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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 ...
Site name Reason for designation Area Grid reference [B] Year in which notified Map [C] Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres Acres Farm Meadow Y 4.2 10.4 SU024927 1989 Map River Avon System Y 507.8 1,254.8 SU073583 1996 Map Baverstock Juniper Bank Y 2.6 6.4 SU035336 1971 Map Bencroft Hill Meadows Y 5.1 12.6 SU962732 1988 Map Bentley Wood Y 665.0 1,643.0 SU250295 1985 Map ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Although Natural Tunnel State Park was created in 1967 and opened to the public in 1971, ... Tunnel Hill Trail [6] 0.7 miles (1.1 km) Easy/Moderate
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]