Ravilious in Wiltshire

[@nlumby]

simple and effective presentation - thank you

[@stevesewful]

thank you for all your hard work. very interesting

[@thewaythingsare8158]

Excellent presentation thank you - a real shame I missed the show. When we stopped at the Westbury white horse I'm pretty sure it was faced with concrete! Looked pretty alarming. Wonder when that happened? When I passed through Marlborough recently I noticed from the road in the grounds of Marlborough college a mini Silbury hill. Looks like it's being uncovered and restored because there were many tree stumps on it and a spiral path to the top. Not sure if its a folly though

[@WiltshireMuseumDevizes]

You may be interested to listen to this BBC Open Country programme about the White Horses - including Westbury - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zvwd The Marlborough Mound is Prehistoric - dating to roughly the same time as Silbury Hill.

[@thewaythingsare8158]

@@WiltshireMuseumDevizes thank you for clarifying the Malborough mound. Must have been the Victorians then who turned it into a folly. Fancy leaving all those trees to grow into it ! I read somewhere the writer Bruce Chiatwin was a student at the college and he used to cycle to Avebury quite regularly , for what Paul Nash used to call the Genius Loci. I heard the radio 4 broadcast either very late or very early recently and recognised your voice and then you answered my question about Westbury. I've had a Ravillious Giglee print of the Sussex downland on my wall for many years now. I absolutely love it and a Nash lithograph print of the stone avenue and Silbury Hill bought at the Towner Art gallery in Eastbourne,