HOLYHILLS AND SACRED STONES

摘要

How grand! How wonderful!How incomprehensible! JMHftiffll exclaimed Richard Colt Hn Hoare, the early 19th-m M century aristocrat and antiquarian, of Stonehenge. Another, more famous and earlier antiquarian, William Stukeley, described Wiltshire's other great stone circle, Avebury, as'stupendous', even comparing it to the pyramids of Egypt A third Wiltshire monument - Silbury Hill, one of the world's largest man-made mounds -has similarly been a magnet for superlatives: in the 17th century, Stukeley remarked that it was'astonishing'and'magnificent.