Skipsea, a huge mound – 85 metres in diameter, 13 metres tall – is now revealed following a recent excavation as an earthwork resembling the famous Silbury in Wiltshire, the largest manmade prehistoric hill in Europe. Although Silbury is more imposing, twice the height and 2,000 years older, Skipsea is a unique example from Iron Age Britain. “To say that the discovery of an Iron Age monument hiding in plain sight was surprising is an understatement. His suspicions about the true dates of castle mounds began when he was working on Silbury and driving every day past another mound within the grounds of Marlborough school. Leary has 10 more castle mounds on his list to sample next year, but has decided against disturbing the owner of one of the most famous in the country, the Queen at Windsor.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2016 06:00 UTC