[Stones] The Great Bank

[Thelma Wilcox]

    What I find fascinating is (as with Silbury itself) that the Great Bank is situated on land liable to flood. If the Great Bank was a proto-Silbury that water feature is something that links them.
   
   
  So taking water as the key, water which because of the chalk, has the capacity to appear suddenly but also disappear leaving the river dry, water becomes a vital resource that you have then to 'create' a landscape for its retention? Following through, i.e. the moat round Silbury, echoed in the moat round Avebury.  The creation of course is symbolic, but the one underlying feature of chalk country is probably drought like conditions in summer - water was at a premium in Neolithic times....



       
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