Hurrah! The Olympic torch stopped at Silbury Hill after all ! See the pictures!
24/05/2012 in Prehistory, Silbury
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25/05/2012 at 06:40
Brian
Silbury Hill has stood witness to extraordinary events: the building of the largest stone circle in the world, Romans dog-legging their new road past the foot of the mound, Roman legions departing and Saxons arriving, the Great Viking Host being ambushed, Norman invaders and the Domesday surveyors, the Civil War comings and goings of Stephen and Matilda, the passage of the Black Death, Charles II and the future James II climbing the Hill together in 1663,…one could easily go on and on ever widening and deepening this furrow as monarchs and armies came and went as would the first bicycles, the first cars, etc.
Throughout more than four thousand years of history life has paused, stared and wondered, on encountering Silbury Hill. This week one of many Olympic flames passed the unique mound inside a vehicle – it is not then Silbury that missed out on history!