Silbury Hill

[ sil-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun

1. the largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, located near Avebury, England, and dating from 2600 b.c.

Example Sentences

Lunch calls and we skirt around Silbury Hill’s 40-metre-high “pregnant belly” to picnic at the centre of Avebury’s complex.

From The Guardian

Hotter drier summers could increase visitor numbers and change the plant species which stabilise the chalk downlands, causing more soil erosion, while Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill face increased rainfall and flash floods.

From The Guardian

They have also long known about the other monuments — burial chambers, a 130-foot-tall mound of chalk known as Silbury Hill and many other circular structures.

From New York Times

Participants will take private tours of meditative sites like Stonehenge’s inner circle, the Glastonbury Tor and Chalice Well, Tolkien Trees, Silbury Hill and Cheddar Gorge.

From New York Times

Many prehistoric mounds like Silbury Hill near Avebury are also circular.

From The Guardian