Silbury Hill
Americannoun
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Silbury Hill is an amazing structure, the biggest manmade hill in Europe – an engineering feat the equivalent of the Pyramids, but in Wiltshire.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2011
Silbury Hill, an artificial man-made mound about five miles away, also dates back to 2,400 BC.
From BBC • May 31, 2011
The great naturalist is revealing a little-known side of himself: his love of archaeology – and his fascination with Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010
Silbury Hill is near Avebury, a quaint English village set inside a prehistoric stone circle.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010
Near this place is an enormous tumulus, perhaps the largest in England; it is called Silbury Hill, and common belief declares it the place of sepulchre of some British king.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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