Reflections under the hill by ….Tim Silbury Hill is situated to the north side of the A4 between Marlborough and Beckhampton in Wiltshire, UK. A car park is provided for viewing, but access to the hill is prohibited.
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. 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.
Carbon dating suggests that Silbury Hill was built around 2500 BC. Nobody really knows why it was built, local legend would have it as the burial place of King Sil (or Zil), said to buried under the mound sitting on his horse. There have been several excavations which have not found any trace of a burial.
Silbury Hill suffered a considerable amount of damage at the end of May, 2000. Heavy rains caused part of an old shaft to collapse. The shaft is about 100 feet deep and was dug in the 18th Century in an attempt to discover whether the mound contained a burial. The public have been restricted from climbing Silbury Hill for some years now, but despite the signs and the fences some people still persist. I hope that this collapse brings home to these people the potential for damaging the site and also the danger involved. Many of those who climb it claim they hold Silbury Hill as sacred. I find it strange that anyone would wish to damage something they say is sacred to them…
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Also check out this site to read about extra terrestrial activity in the area – http://ift.tt/1MfTutf http://flic.kr/p/2AbYQA
Sig Nordal 