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Posted: 10 Oct 2014

Taken: 31 Aug 2012

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Silbury Hill

Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill was built about 4,750 years ago and is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe. At about 131 feet high and occupying 5 acres, it is comparable to Egyptian pyramids being built at around the same time. It would have taken 500 men working for 15 years to complete this Neolithic project.
Photographed with a Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens on a Nikon D2Xs.
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 Steve Bucknell
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"There is no such thing as the past. The hill lives and the generations live within it. Earth-the element we walk on, and dig out and heap up with our antler picks, our baskets-is the embodiment of the movement of time."

From an excellent new book by Adam Thorpe "On Silbury Hill" recounting his relationship with the landscape around Silbury and his "schooling" at Marlborough.

"The point about Silbury is that she has no point."
9 years ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Maybe you know Nigel Swift's short poem about Silbury:

Ask in vain!
For we, the dead,
Speak not a word to you.
This thing was ours, not yours.

Gaze in awe,
On what we wrought.
There is no clue.
This thing was ours, not yours.

We, whose fingers bled,
Whose passions burned.
Care not for you.
This thing was ours, not yours.
9 years ago.

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