Heavy rainfall has caused a moat to form around a 4,000-year-old prehistoric hill. Silbury Hill in Wiltshire now resembles an ancient fort after downpours led to a large horse-shoe shaped lake forming ...

Recent heavy rain has caused the ground surrounding Silbury Hill to become saturated, creating a horseshoe-shaped moat At a glance A moat formed around the base of the ancient monument after heavy ...

Silbury Hill is a huge artificial mound in southern England, about 130 feet high and covering five acres. Europe’s largest artificial mound, it may have been built by the makers of Stonehenge…but they ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Archaeologists on Friday plan to reopen a tunnel into Silbury Hill, Europe's largest prehistoric artificial mound, in a bid to carry out urgent repair work amid fears that the ...

The man-made hill, part of the Avebury World Heritage site, was believed to have taken many centuries to build. But research by English Heritage archaeologists suggests the Stone Age site was made in ...