The Site of Avebury Silbury Hill in Wiltshire
It is not known what the original function of the Silbury Hill site, developed over 4,500 years ago, was. According to various theories, it would be an observatory of the Sun or a sculpture dedicated to the goddess of the Earth. Geomancers, for their part, are mainly interested in the extraordinary energy field that surrounds this enigmatic place.
The Silbury Hill site
Located south of Avebury, Silbury Hill is an artificial hill with a flattened top, 40 meters high and composed of 339,600 cubic meters of earth. The development of the site took place in three phases: the first began around 2660 BC. Then, during the second, a chalk spiral was built which rose on six levels from the base to the top of the mound. During the third and last phase, this chalk spiral was covered with a layer of gravel and earth, which gave the mound its characteristic conical shape.
The Celtic Festival of Lughnasadh
A legend tells that Silbury hill would have served as a tomb for a forgotten king, named Sil. According to another legend, this tomb was that of a knight with an armor and a horse made of gold. It is also said that the devil, who was about to pour a bag of earth over the town of Marlborough, met the powerful priests of Avery and that the latter forced him to empty his bag here.
In 1732, the scholar William Stukeley wrote that the summit of Silbury Hill had been used for burials and that there bones were found as well as a horse bridle. New excavations were carried out in 1776, 1849 and 1967, but no tomb or evidence was found that would tell us about the function of this hill. Thanks to the carbon 14 dating, the archaeologist Richard Atkinson succeeds in fixing exactly the date of the beginning of the work: these would have started in the night of July 31 to August 1 of the year 2660 BC, that is to say the day of the Celtic Festival of Lughnasadh, a shamanistic rite performed by women in nature.
Sculpture or meeting place for UFOs?
Regularly researchers propose new theories. For Michael Dames, Silbury Hill would be a sculpture representing the pregnant goddess of the Earth Terra.
According to another theory, the shade cast by the hill on the surrounding plain would make Silbury an ideal place to observe the sun.
Geomancers, meanwhile, have noticed that Silbury was on the Ley line (power line) of the Neolithic burial site of West Kennet Long Barrow and the obelisk of Avebury. One meridian runs through Glastonbury, Avebury Church, Stonehenge and the megalithic circle of Winterbourne Abbas. In addition, the Roman road linking Marlborough and Bath leads directly to Silbury and goes around the hill. We can conclude that the Roman builders knew this line when they fixed the trajectory of this route. The author John Michell writes on this subject: “In China, hills similar to that of Silbury were arranged on the lung mei, the road of the Dragon. We are therefore led to believe that Silbury was laid out on the Dragon Road by pre-Celtic druids thanks to a geomancy compass. There is, in fact, every reason to think that the Chinese lung mei is spreading all over the globe.”
The healing properties of the Silbury energy field
In addition, the energy field of Silbury hill would have, among other virtues, healing properties. Dowsers have indeed observed that the Ley line, where the Silbury hill is located, possessed female properties. Light balls have also been observed near the site and crop circles are regularly formed in the surrounding fields. For ufologists, these phenomena are the manifestation of an extraterrestrial activity.
It will take many more years to uncover all the secrets of Silbury and the surrounding sites. Since the 1980s, scientific and spiritual disciplines have combined their efforts so that archeology and intuition together contribute to the elucidation of these many mysteries.
