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Silbury Hill and the
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Sanctuary Stone Circle
Silbury Hill
- The enigmatic Silbury Hill that lies
close to Avebury and many significant sites on the Marlborough
Downs was built around 5000 years ago. It is the largest prehistoric
mound in Europe covering an area of around 5.5 acres
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- It has a number curious coincidental parallel
relationships with the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
- Silbury Hill
has an angle of slope of 30 degrees and
lies close to latitude 51 degrees 51 minutes.
- The Great Pyramid which has an angle of slope of 51 degrees
51 minutes and lies on a latitude of 30 degrees.
It would also appear that Silbury Hill was crucial
to the setting out of the Marlborough Downs landscape circular
leys acting as a geodetic and primary surveying point.
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- Silbury Hill from
the south
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6853)
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The Sanctuary - an astronomical calendar
- Close to Silbury Hill on the
A.4 road from Marlborough lies the site of a ruined stone circle
that holds many puzzles.
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- This circle comprised a series of concentric
circles formed by stones and timber posts which archaeologists
believe could have been a hut temple, for it marks the start
of the Avenue of stones that leads to the henge monument of Avebury.
In addition this site could easily have been used as a sophisticated form
of astronomical calculator.
The article below enlarges on
this theme.
One aspect that should be noted
is the number of stones and posts in each quadrant of the different
circles when the site is divided into North, South, East and
West.
In the outer stone circle there
are 21 stones in each East - West half, whilst there are
20 stones in the northern segment and 22 stones
in the southern half.
In the first post ring shown blue on
the plan the
posts increase in number from the north-western quadrant which
has 7 through to the south-western which has 10.
The sequence of each segment runs 7, 8, 9,10. This must have
been deliberate.
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