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Silbury Hill Flooded

Will Silbury Hill wash away? I think the radio presenter who asked me that was probably joking. It rained a lot a decade ago, and the top of the hill collapsed inwards when poorly backfilled old excavation tunnels slumped. English Heritage fixed it, and really it’s pretty stable now.It’s been raining a lot again, and as has happened before, the old ditch around Silbury is now flooded. It’s a good time to see the site (especially if the sun shines), as it’s easier to imagine how it might have appeared when it was built – and when its original purpose and meaning were driving events and perceptions in the final neolithic/copper age around 2400BC. So here, in case you can’t make it out there, is how it looked this week.