The story of Silbury Hill / Jim Leary ; David Field ; foreword by David Attenborough ; and illustrations by Judith Dobie and Eddie Lyons.
ISBN
9781848020467 : GBP14.99
Dewey Classmark
936.231
936.2317
936.2317
Local Shelfmark
W 936.231 LEA
Personal Author
Leary, Jim.
Publication
London : English Heritage : [distributor] Central Books Ltd, 2010.
Physical Description
205 p. : b&w, 100 col. ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Contents
Contents: 1. The nature of time-- 2. Kings, Druids and early investigations-- 3. Into the twentieth century: Petrie, Atkinson and the BBC-- 4. 'What do you mean there's a hole on top of Silbury?'-- 5. Creating the mound-- 6. Making sense of the mound-- 7. Land, stones and the development of monuments-- 8. From Small Town to Sele-burh-- 9. The Timekeeper.
Summary of Contents
Summary: Written by two experts with unrivalled information and knowledge of Silbury Hill, and combining scholarly research and readable narrative, this book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill.
Summary: Silbury Hill in Wiltshire is the tallest prehistoric human-made mound in Europe, similar in size to some of the smaller Egyptian pyramids. This book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill.
Language Note
English.
Subject
Excavations (Archaeology) Silbury Hill (England)
Landscape archaeology (HDL) Conservation of the environment (RNK) Wiltshire (1DBKEWW). bicssc
Excavations (Archaeology) Silbury Hill.
Subject - Geographical Name
Silbury Hill (England) Antiquities.
Silbury Hill (England) History.
Added Personal Name
Field, David.
Attenborough, David, 1926-
Dobie, Judith.
Lyons, E. R.
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1. The nature of time-- 2. Kings, Druids and early investigations-- 3. Into the twentieth century: Petrie, Atkinson and the BBC-- 4. 'What do you mean there's a hole on top of Silbury?'-- 5. Creating the mound-- 6. Making sense of the mound-- 7. Land, stones and the development of monuments-- 8. From Small Town to Sele-burh-- 9. The Timekeeper.
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Written by two experts with unrivalled information and knowledge of Silbury Hill, and combining scholarly research and readable narrative, this book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill.
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Silbury Hill in Wiltshire is the tallest prehistoric human-made mound in Europe, similar in size to some of the smaller Egyptian pyramids. This book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill.
