Local school children from Avebury Primary School and Kennet Valley Primary School visited the Hill on 29 June 2007 to try to find out more about the mystery of Silbury and take part in hands-on archaeological workshops. They spent the morning talking to archaeologists and discovered that it was probably completed by about 2350 BC as part of the Avebury sacred landscape. It apparently contains no burial or shrine, and its purpose remains unknown.
They joined the archaeologists in getting mucky hands whilst sifting the chalk from the Hill to try to find clues about what the Hill was used for. That same morning, archaeologists had discovered flints and antler tools, providing evidence for how the Hill was built.
In the afternoon the children took part in archaeology games and activities at the Alexander Keiller Museum. The class split into 3 groups and some looked at prehistoric soil samples through microscopes whilst others investigated Neolithic stone tools and tried to understand how they were used.
The third group investigated the contents of a time capsule left in the Hill in 1849 and planned their own time capsule for the Hill.
Children’s work on Silbury Hill
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