Last glimpse inside ancient enigma
By Stephen Smith
Newsnight Culture Correspondent
…Silbury Hill is a pile of chalk just off the A4 in Wiltshire but it’s been called “Europe’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2018 to the pyramids”.
As you round a bend out of Marlborough and come face to face with the hill, the thought that our http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1781 is what immediately connects it with the ziggurats of the Nile delta.
Others maintain that it’s the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3082 monarch. King Sil (hence ‘Sil-bury’) and that he’s interred with a gold statue of his faithful steed.
In fact, no one’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=704. On a bright morning not so long ago, adepts of early music ascended the 40 metre hill with their horns and their fifes, their skins and their bladders, in order to establish that sound carried from the summit to the plains below.
The hill was a bandstand, at least for some of the time. Later, under http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=375 rule, it was a lookout post.
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