[Stones] The Great Bank

[NIGELSWIFT at aol.com]

Ric, it has been used for fly tipping for ages. Maybe decades. There are  old 
bottles in the soil on one side. On the other, when I first saw it, there  
was fresh builders' rubble, massive quantities.I stressed that it would ruin the 
 profile when it got overgrown. No doubt it has now.
 
Bluff, schmuff. ;) These are gentle chalk hills not given to sudden,  
almost-detached, very round lumps...
 
Its worth going when the moat is full and seeing the spring bubbling up  
within it, pure, beautiful, mysterious. Makes Swallhowhead look like a sewer...  
Oh, and it opens out on one side to a square section. Very striking.
 
What's a big sarsen doing on the slope of it?
 
Oh, and here's a confession. I think the mound has facets, seven or  eight 
sides, like Silbury. I haven't heard anyone else agree mind you. But you  can 
get a bit of an idea of what I mean from the aerial  images.



   
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