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Parker Pearson and Ramilisonina start their journey at the timber (land of the living) West Kennet palisade enclosures: a feasting place where people could have gathered and prepared themselves through ritual for entry into the land of the dead. From inside enclosure 2, assuming that the posts extend to around 6m above ground, the only external monument that can be seen is Silbury Hill, the top of which is visible from the south-east end of the enclosure.
If the palisade enclosures represent the place of the living, as the absence of views over any of the surrounding long barrows or places of the ancestors seems to suggest, then the view to Silbury Hill might suggest that it was regarded as a symbol of the living: this idea will be further discussed below. However, one might also argue that the enclosure's shape and orientation are due to its proximity to the Kennet river.
More at http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/3/3.2.html
part of Digital Avebury: New 'Avenues' of Research - Simon R. Davies
in Internet Archaeology Issue 27 (2009)
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/3/toc.html
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