Druid Pyramids: 2,700 B.C. Britain

Stukeley has drawn a feature at this point on this plate (TAB VIII) from “Abury – A Temple of the British Druids”

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/silbaby.html

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/silbury_hill/IMAG007.JPG

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/silbury_hill/IMAG003.JPG

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/chalk_effect/IMAG006.JPG — Chalk excavation

This experimental barrow was dug on Overton Down in 1960…..It is a perfect illustration of how the monuments must have once appeared.

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/chalk_effect/IMAG002.JPG

When looking at them all to-day it is easy to forget or not even to consider their once dramatic appearance which would have made them visible from a considerable distance.

http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/chalk_effect.html

The appearance of Avebury and the surrounding monuments to-day is still spectacular but it blends into the pastures and fields of the modern landscape with everything mostly covered in grass and the underlying chalk being barely in evidence…….. How different Avebury’s monuments must have looked when they were first completed. Silbury Hill must have appeared like a snow covered mountain, the ditch and bank of the Avebury circle also starkly white against the surrounding landscape. Likewise would have been the mounds of the long-barrows and tumuli that were commonplace in the area.

Druid Art: 10,000 B.C.

Celtic Druid cave art, termed the “Sistine Ceiling of the Ice Age” has been discovered in Britain, proving that the Ice Age did not drive the Druids out of Britain, but that the cold forced them to become creative, living, creating and working indoors.

http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/CHT/News_and_views/rock_art_july2004.html

http://www.uned.es/dpto-pha/creswell/fotos.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

BAHN P., PETTITT P. & RIPOLL S., 2003. – ‘Discovery of Palaeolithic cave art in Britain.’

Antiquity, 77, N° 296, June, P.227-23