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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...
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  • On Silbury Hill is a book by Adam Thorpe published in 2014 by Little Toller Books. His first work of non-fiction, it is inspired by Silbury Hill and was...
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    older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with...
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    Italy (45 m (148 ft)) Blackstrap Ski Hill, Canada (45 m (148 ft)) Jingshan Hill, China (45 m (148 ft)) Silbury Hill, England (40 m (130 ft)) Mount Manisty...
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    Marlborough Mound (category Hills of Wiltshire)
    Wiltshire. Standing 19 metres (60 ft) tall, it is second only to the nearby Silbury Hill in terms of height for such a monument. Modern study situates the construction...
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    constructed or modified, including such sites as Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and Must Farm. That has been described as a time "when elaborate ceremonial...
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    henge and stone circles, the West Kennet Avenue, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill. During the Romano-British period, a small coin hoard was buried in the...
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    building, though it is usually thought to have been an open-air structure. Silbury Hill was also built in the early Bell Beaker period. It may have originally...
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    Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, and associated local sites, to its World Heritage List. The earliest occupied site in the area is on Windmill Hill in the north-west...
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  • Bluestonehenge Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet Long Barrow...
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    Neolithic Wessex, based upon charred pips found at the site of Hambledon Hill. They may have been imported from Continental Europe, or they might have...
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    Stonehenge, earthen mounds such as Silbury Hill, long barrows such as West Kennet Long Barrow, and white horses in chalk hills. In 1991, two self-professed...
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    along with stone rows and the famous sites of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill, which building reached its peak at this time. Industrial flint mining...
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    the ages from pre-Roman routes, Roman roads (such as the one passing Silbury Hill), and basic wagon tracks. During the Middle Ages, most byways and tracks...
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  • much of which centers on a spoof screening of the film at the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre. Also among the new items is the "Marilyn Monroe" sketch, which...
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    ci, cŵn “dog”. One of the Kennet's sources is Swallowhead Spring near Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, and others are springs north of Avebury near the small...
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  • described by explorer Antonio Alzate. 1776: October - Vertical shaft sunk at Silbury Hill. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1774: Discovery of reputed Roman...
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  • Press/Historic Scotland. p. 71 "The Cuween Hill Cairn, Firth". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved...
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    Windmill Hill and its associated sites: West Kennet Long Barrow, the Avebury henge, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill. "History of Windmill Hill". English...
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    Thom[citation needed] and others, described in detail how Maeshowe, Silbury Hill and other ancient mounds and Neolithic megaliths across Britain served...
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    county. Among the most remarkable are Vespasian's Camp, near Amesbury; Silbury Hill, the largest artificial mound in Europe, near Avebury; the mounds of...
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    Museum Science Museum library and archives, Wroughton Shearwater Lake Silbury Hill Stonehenge Stourhead Swindon and Cricklade Railway Swindon Steam Railway...
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    Mound date from 2400 BC. This is close to the dates established for Silbury Hill. The main focus of the college is the Court. This is surrounded by buildings...
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  • prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, with its connotations of the spiritual and mysterious: the precise function of Silbury Hill remains unknown...
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    Earthworks can vary in height from a few centimetres to the size of Silbury Hill at 40 metres (130 ft). They can date from the Neolithic to the present...
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    sites Mound 34 Mound 72 Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Sugarloaf Mound Silbury Hill Skele, Mike "The Great Knob", Studies in Illinois Archaeology, no. 4]...
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    such as the Swallowhead Springs, close to Silbury Hill (Wiltshire) or the Holy Well near Tadmarton Hill (Oxfordshire), suggests that reverence for such...
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    found it to date from about 2400 BC. It is of similar age to the larger Silbury Hill about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the town. Legend has it that the Mound...
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    The Sanctuary (redirect from Hill O'Ver)
    Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet Long Barrow The Sanctuary...
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  • Trust helped them to acquire the meadowland surrounding the monument of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. Wiltshire Museum, Devizes, has some of her finds and implements...
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