The Silbury Treasure: The Great Goddess Rediscovered

192pp, numerous in-text black and white photographs and illustrations. Burgundy cloth-covered boards; gilt publisher's logo on front, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Text block edges tanning, affecting page margins. Endpapers tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, not price clipped. Michael Dames proposes Silbury Hill, a prehistoric site in Wiltshire symbolises a neolithic Great Goddess figure,  the hill itself being her body. He uses evidence from astronomy, folklore, and archaeology to support this theory, suggesting the hill was built to embody the concept of the mother goddess.  His supposition has been quite influential, its themes being taken up by artists, writers and researchers.