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Silbury Hill
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Selburie
In the civil parish of Avebury.
In the historic county of Wiltshire (Modern Authority of Wiltshire, 1974 county of Wiltshire).
Late Neolithic flat-topped conical mound which stands to a height of some 37m above an encircling quarry ditch. The summit has seen several later episodes of disturbance, including some form of revetment of late Saxon date (late Saxon or early Norman potsherds were found, as was a coin of circa 1010AD).
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Uncertain.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU10016853
PastScape number;
220743
- Web site links
- Books
- Endacott, Alan and Kelleher, Susan (eds), 2004, Heritage Unlocked; Guide to free sites in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (English Heritage) p85-7
Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p100
Whittle, A., 1997, Sacred Mound, Holy Rings. Silbury Hill Hill and the West Kennet Palisade Enclosures: A Later Neolithic Complex in North Wiltshire (Oxford: Oxbow) p22
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p278 [slight]
Caroline Malone, 1989, English Heritage book of Avebury p95-104
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p502 [possible]
Atkinson, R.J.C., 1978, 'Silbury Hill' in Sutcliffe, R. (ed), Chronicle: Essays from Ten Years of Television Archaeology (London: BBC) p170
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, Elizabeth (ed), 1957, VCH Wiltshire Vol1 pt1 p36
- Journal Articles
- Creighton, O.H., 2000, 'Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Wiltshire' Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Vol93 p112
Atkinson, R.J.C., 1970, 'Sibury Hill 1969-70' Antiquity Vol44 p313-14
Downman, E.A. and Goddard, E.H., 1919 'Plans of Wiltshire Earthworks' Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Vol40 p352
1914, Archaeologia Cambrensis [ser6] Vol14 p135-7
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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