[Stones] The Great Bank

[Ric]

i have long pondered the meaning of Waden Hill - there
is a tumulus upon it, but beside this, the reference
to a heathen temple - in the context of Anglo-Saxon
place names - is a complete mystery to me;

you two are surely not suggesting Waden Hill is
artificial? :-o

R

--- littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:

> I use inverted commas to avoid being accused of
> being wrong, but between you and me Rik, I'm not... 
> 
> :)
> 
> Chuckle... We don't know that it's proto-Silbury,
> Nigel, we don't even know that it's manmade. Mind,
> standing up there with you earlier in the year it
> was hard to believe that it was not manmade, and its
> size and symmetry were pretty awe-inspiring. If I
> had to put money on it I'd say the Great Bank (or
> Weedon Hill as it may also have been known [the
> etymology of Weedon, ric, it's interesting*] is both
> manmade and proto-Silbury - proto simply because
> it's smaller than Silbury :-)
> 
> * Weedon. 'hill with a heathen temple'. OE
> weoh+dun... Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names
> by A D Mills. ISBN 0 19 280074 4. Page 368.