Reports from summer activities at Silbury Hill
Various exciting events have taken place over the summer...
English Heritage has begun an important conservation project at Silbury Hill to stabilise the collapsed tunnels and voids within the monument. Running alongside the project, several different exciting events and activites took place at Silbury during summer 2007.
Local schoolchildren visited the site to find out about the project and take part in hands-on archaeology workshops. Inspired by their visit, the children drew and wrote about Silbury Hill and planned the contents of a time capsule to go inside the hill.
During National Archaeology Week, young people from the Wiltshire Young Archaeologists Club, the Swindon Youth Service and the Court Mills Youth Development Service in Trowbridge took part in mound-building activities, to discover for themselves how Silbury Hill had been built.
A weekend of acoustic experiments at Silbury also took place. Replica prehistoric instruments were played on top of the monument and members of the public were enlisted to stand at various listening posts in the surrounding landscape to record what they heard.
More information about these events and their results can be found by clicking on the links at the bottom of this page.
The conservation project at Silbury Hill is continuing and weekly updates on progress of the project can also be found at www.english-heritage.org.uk/silbury. Each update contains new photographs from inside the tunnels, and information about engineering and archaeological developments. Keep checking back to see how we are getting on!
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