Silbury Hill to get stuffed
Posted on 16th May, 2007 by Heather
This blog (as a collective being) loves megalithic structures and sites.
So, it was interesting to read on clioaudio’s excellent blog and in an English Heritage press release that Silbury Hill is being excavated.
Ironically,the half-arsed attempts to nose around in Silbury Hill were what is putting it at risk, after about 4000 years of being pretty solid. It’s a pyramid shaped man-made hill so it was inherently steady.
It was dug into by the Duke of Northumberland, in 1777, and by a Professor Atkinson, in the 1960s. The shafts they dug have made the monument unstable. Hence English Heritage is going in to shore it up with concrete. Hmm.
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