[Stones] The Silbury Sarcophagus?

[littlestone]

Just been looking at the Silbury Conservation Risk Assessment (Fachtna McAvoy, May 2005 - second link down at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17594 ) and wonder what the large block of stone might be that's shown in the photo on Page 52, Fig. A14. Apart from the (broken?) right-hand side the stone looks pretty symmetrical. Note how the left-hand side and top seem to have been dressed. Looks almost like one end of a sarcophagus. Natural or otherwise someone in 1969 took the trouble to measure and photograph the cavity in the top of stone - a cavity which seems to be about a foot deep and about two foot long.

The next photo (Fig. A15) is also interesting and shows what looks like Atkinson on the left with a colleague on the right who seems to be working on the stone with a trowel. The helmet shown on the extreme right is the same helmet belonging to the person working opposite Atkinson (double exposure - there are actually only two people there). Note also the bucket at the base of the stone. Are Atkinson and his colleague removing debris from the top of the stone that's shown in photo A14?

If the shape of the stone is just natural and not dressed it's still of interest and, hopefully, still in situ.
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