Silbury Hill

Japanese: シルベリー・ヒル(英語表記)Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill
Located in Wiltmere, southern England, the largest man-made mound in Europe. It has a truncated cone shape with a base area of ​​2.1 hectares, a height of 40m, and a flat top with a diameter of 30.5m. The mound is surrounded by a moat 40m wide and 5.6m deep, stretching to 150m in some places. The moat ends in two places in the south, which are thought to be the access roads. There have been several excavations since the 18th century in an attempt to discover a burial chamber or passageway, but none have yielded any results.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
イギリス,イングランド南部のウィルトミアにあるヨーロッパ最大の人工の円丘。截頭円錐形を呈し,基底部面積2.1ha,高さ40m,頂部は径30.5mの平たん部となる。円丘の周囲には,幅40m,深さ5.6mの濠がめぐり,一部では幅150mに広がる。濠は南で2ヵ所とぎれ,そこが進入路かと考えられている。18世紀以来数度にわたる発掘調査があり,墓室あるいは墓道の検出をねらったが,いずれもその発見にいたらなかった。

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