[Stones] Romans pay homage to Silbury?

[Ric]

littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:          BBC Radio 4 news item this morning reports that English Heritage have discovered a Roman settlement at the base of Silbury. Indications are that the settlement may have been used by visiting Romans wishing to pay homage to the monument.
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  'The largest villa-type settlement local to Avebury was discovered near to Silbury Hill, a small Roman town incorporating four (votive) wells on Silbury's SE side. More evidence for the dense settlement at the base of the hill was gathered in the late 1960's. The site may also represent a station for changing horses along the roman road to Bath'.
   
   ~ paraphrased from 'Avebury: the biography of a landscape', Pollard and Reynolds, 2002.
   
  and this is suddenly 'breaking news'?


ric
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