Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Silbury Hill, an enormous barrow in Wiltshire, in the valley of the Kennet, 1½ mile S of Avebury. It measures 1680 feet in circuit at the base, and 315 feet at the top, is 135 feet high, and, if formed in our day, would cost about £20,000. The Archaeological Institution explored it in 1849, but did not find in it anything of consequence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Silbury Hill are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)