Massive derives from mass, which derives from maza, Greek for barley Are you on speed? (View Post)

enormous is e(x) - norm(al) - ous; from Latin enormis, it could have meant unusually large, or unusually shaped massive is having lots of mass, like a big pile of Greek maza barley (View Post)

It's a "purse", a prehistoric means of carrying ancient shards of metal, once quite unbelievably used as a medium of exchange (View Post)

I read an article in a local archaeology magazine last year postulating that Avebury circle was built when the water level was such that, due to the natural spring underneath it, the ditch would have… (View Post)

Silbury Hill, the largest artificial prehistoric mound in Europe, just outside Avebury, had a moat at the weekend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbury_Hill (View Post)