Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound. The hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe.
Composed mainly of chalk and clay excavated from the surrounding area, the mound stands 39.3 metres (129 ft) high and covers about 2 hectares (5 acres). The hill was constructed in several stages between c. 2400~2300 BCE and displays immense technical skill and prolonged control over labour and resources.
As a Photographer, it is difficult to capture the immense scale of this mound and the backbreaking labour involved in its construction. The people involved had no access to sophisticated tools as we have today. The excavation of the earth and chalk would have been undertaken with deer antlers , used as picks and other animal bones as shovels.
Sarsen Stones at the Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire, England.
Overcast, dark morning, so I popped up to Avebury to makes some images of the Standing Stones when the sky had form and textures.
This stones were erected here 6,000 years ago, before those at Stonehenge. Shear manpower was used to transport them from the top of the Marlborough Downs down to the site at Avebury. Our Neolithic ancestors had to make do with Deer Antlers as picks and their version of rope, made from the hides of animals cured and platted together. Many of the stones weigh over 16 tonnes each
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