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What IS the secret of Silbury Hill? Artificial Mound Wiltshire

Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 22 November 2007  Page Views: 1499

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Pagan burial site? Too boring. UFO landing pad? Too bonkers. So what IS the secret of Silbury Hill? Terry the Druid reveals all

Can there be anything more po-faced than a health and safety briefing?

We are about to enter some rather iffy tunnels dug into Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, a 4,400-year-old man-made pyramid constructed entirely from chalk.

It will be wet, dark and nasty in there, so we need to take precautions. There is talk of wearing hard hats, stout footwear and highvisibility jackets.

But what makes our briefing slightly less catatonic than the average health and safety lecture is the presence of Terry Dobney.

He looks, well, different from the other officials.

For a start, he is wearing a long white robe.

And he sports facial hair of Biblical proportions.

He is carrying a piece of antler, and a long wooden staff with a crystal in the top.

Terry, you see, is an official site druid. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have to wear a hard hat like everyone else.

All the spirits of heaven and earth won't save him if one of those tunnels collapses on his head.

More in the Daily Mail.
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Re: by Anonymous on Thursday, 22 November 2007
Is this a repeated story from the Mail & if so why? or has it just been repeated by the the Portal & if so why?

See.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491447&in_page_id=1770
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    Re: Mail Story by Andy B on Thursday, 22 November 2007
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    We linked to the same story a few days ago from the forum but it tickled us enough to put in the news feed. The full story in the Daily Mail is linked to.
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Re: by Anonymous on Thursday, 22 November 2007
A Barometer?
What a joke.
This bloke is off his head.
He gives himself grandiose titles which every other druid laughs at then goes around talking rubbish to the press who actualy take him seriously (well the tabloids do.)

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