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Adam's Grave Long Barrow
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Adam's Grave Fallen Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Aldbourne Blowing Stone Natural Rock Feature
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Aldbourne Four Barrows Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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The Aldbourne Way Ancient Trackway
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Allington Down Round Barrow(s)
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Alton Priors Christianised Site
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3 sites
Avebury Stone Circle
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Avebury Down Round Barrow(s)
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Baltic Farm Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Barbury Castle Hillfort
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Barrows south-west of Knap Cottage Round Barrow(s)
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Barrow Copse Long Barrow
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Barton Copse Barrows Round Barrow(s)
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Beckhampton Avenue Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
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Beckhampton Penning Barrow Cemetery Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Beckhampton Penning Enclosure Enclosure
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Beckhampton Plantation Stone Circle Stone Circle
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Broad Stones (Clatford) Stone Circle (Destroyed)
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Cherhill Down and Oldbury Hillfort
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Clatford Barrows Round Barrow(s) (Destroyed)
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Crofton Causewayed Enclosure
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Devil's Den Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech
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Draycott Hill Round Barrow(s)
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Easton Down Long Barrow
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East Kennett Longbarrow Long Barrow
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Experimental Earthwork Artificial Mound
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Falkner's Circle Stone Circle
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Falkners Circle Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Falkners Circle Long Barrow Long Barrow
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Furze Knoll Ancient Mine / Quarry
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The Giant's Grave (Aldbourne) Round Barrow(s)
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Giant's Grave (Martinsell) Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Golden Ball Hill Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Granham Hill Long Barrow
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14 sites
The Greywethers Natural Rock Feature
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The Hanging Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Harestone Down Stone Circle Stone Circle
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Horslip Long Barrow
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Horton Down Round Barrow(s)
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King's Play Hill Long Barrow
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Kitchen Barrow Long Barrow
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Knap Hill Causewayed Enclosure
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5 sites
Knap Hill Pass Ancient Trackway
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Knoll Down Barrows Round Barrow(s)
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Knoll Down Earthwork Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Little Avebury Stone Circle
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Longstones Neolithic Enclosure Enclosure
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The Longstone Cove Standing Stones
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Long Stones Long Barrow
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Manton Down Long Barrow (Destroyed)
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Manton Round Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Marlborough Common Golf Course Barrows Round Barrow(s)
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Marlborough Mound Artificial Mound
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Martinsell Hillfort
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Morgan's Hill Dyke
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Mother Anthony's Well Sacred Well
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North Down Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Ogbourne St Andrew Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Oldbury Long Barrow Long Barrow
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Old Chapel Long Barrow (Destroyed)
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Oliver's Castle Hillfort
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Overton Down (south) Round Barrow(s)
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Overton Hill Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Penning Round Barrow(s)
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Penning Barn Round Barrow(s)
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Picked Hill Sacred Hill
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Picket Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Roughridge Hill Long Barrow
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Rybury Causewayed Enclosure
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The Sanctuary Timber Circle
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Silbury Hill Artificial Mound
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South Street Long Barrow
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Stukeley's Disc Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Swallowhead Springs Sacred Well
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Tan Hill Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Tan Hill (west) Round Barrow(s)
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Temple Bottom Long Barrow (Destroyed)
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Waden Hill Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Wagon and Horses Barrow Cemetery Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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West Down Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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West Kennett Long Barrow
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West Kennett Avenue Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
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West Kennett Avenue Barrow Long Barrow
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West Kennett Five Barrows Round Barrow(s)
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West Kennett Palisaded Enclosures Enclosure (Destroyed)
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West Kennett Round Barrow Pair Round Barrow(s)
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West Kennet Avenue Settlement Site Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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West Kennet Hollow Way Ancient Trackway
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White Barrow (Lockeridge) Long Barrow
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White Horse Barrow Round Barrow(s)
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Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure
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Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle
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Winterbourne Monkton (Churchyard) Standing Stone / Menhir
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Yatesbury Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
Sites of disputed antiquity:
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Beckhampton Road Enclosures Enclosure
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Brade Wyll Sacred Well
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Long Tom Standing Stone / Menhir
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Mount Wood Round Barrow(s)
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Ogbourne St Andrew Church Standing Stones
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Pewsey Standing Stones
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Pewsey Church Standing Stones
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Silbaby Artificial Mound
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St Peter's Church, Clyffe Pypard Christianised Site
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Swanborough Tump Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Woodborough Holed Stone Holed Stone

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Great Stone Way hits stumbling block


"Fears about the number of visitors a new 45-mile walking route will bring means proposed improvements to some rights of way cannot go ahead.

"As a result, a grant offer from the European Union of £27,700 for the scheme linking the World Heritage sites of Stonehenge and Avebury has been withdrawn... continues...
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
15th February 2013ce

Julian Richards to lead series of walks around the World Heritage site of Avebury


Lewis Cowen writing in the The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald today reports that -

TV archaeologist Julian Richards is to lead a series of walks around the World Heritage site of Avebury this summer and autumn... continues...
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
28th May 2012ce
Edited 28th May 2012ce

EXHIBITION: Landscape with Stones: paintings and woodcuts by Nick Schlee


An exhibition of oil paintings and woodcuts by British landscape artist Nick Schlee, focusing on Avebury and the Ridgeway.

This new exhibition features some of Nick Schlee's most bold and vivid work portraying the ancient monument of Avebury and the nearby Ridgeway... continues...
goffik Posted by goffik
17th January 2012ce

Landscape with Stones: Paintings and woodcuts by Nick Schlee


"An exhibition of oil paintings and woodcuts by British landscape artist Nick Schlee, focusing on Avebury and the Ridgeway. This new exhibition features some of Nick Schlee's most bold and vivid work portraying the ancient monument of Avebury and the nearby Ridgeway... continues...
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
28th November 2011ce

Solstice Operational Planning


Minutes of a meeting of Avebury Parish Council held on the 15th March 2011 at The Social Centre, High Street, Avebury SN8 1RF

c. Avebury Solstice Operational Planning Meeting:

(i) Policing will effectively be the same as last year despite the Swindon Music Festival. The police will have air and public order support... continues...
Chance Posted by Chance
2nd June 2011ce

Sunday bus service to Avebury cut


I've just been notified that the 49 bus has been included in funding cuts made by Swindon Borough Council to Sunday services.

It will no longer be possible for anyone to travel to Avebury WHS by public transport on Sundays as from June 5th 2011... continues...
tjj Posted by tjj
22nd April 2011ce

The Cygnus Mystery - talk at Avebury by Andrew Collins


Andrew Collins will be attending the monthly Pagan Moot at 4.00pm in the Red Lion, Avebury on Sunday 6th February. He will be talking about his fascinating book The Cygnus Mystery.

http://aveburymoot.blogspot... continues...
tjj Posted by tjj
3rd February 2011ce
Edited 3rd February 2011ce

Electricity cables finally removed


"The gateway to the Avebury World Heritage Site has been transformed after work to bury unsightly electricity cables was completed…"

"The project, which started over three years ago, was made possible by a partnership involving Wiltshire Council, the National Trust, North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding National Beauty, English... continues...
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
11th September 2010ce

Avebury photo competition


The West Kennet Avenue at Avebury. Photo by Heritage Action member Jim Mitchell, one of the winners in this year's National Trust competition for photographs of Avebury.

Photo here -
http://heritageaction.wordpress... continues...
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
30th May 2010ce

Honouring the Ancient Dead - Avebury Consultation


Following the request made by certain members of the Council of British Druid Orders in June 2006 for the reburial of ancient ancestral remains excavated from the Avebury Complex in Wiltshire, in 2008 English Heritage and the National Trust launched a consultation exercise to take public input... continues...
Chance Posted by Chance
7th February 2010ce

Tea-time over for Avebury clock


The clock at the Alexander Keiller Museum at Avebury, Wiltshire, will be removed for repair on 8 April, the National Trust has confirmed.

The 18th Century turret clock on the Stables Gallery has been stuck at four o'clock for more than a year.

The National Trust's Meg Sims said: "It's always time for tea at Avebury... continues...
goffik Posted by goffik
1st April 2009ce

Kit helps pupils enjoy monument


Kit helps pupils enjoy monument

The pack aims to make learning about the monument fun

A new teaching kit has been produced to help children get more out of school visits to Avebury and surrounding monuments in Wiltshire... continues...
The Eternal Posted by The Eternal
5th May 2008ce
Edited 5th May 2008ce

Neolithic Marathon and The Sarsen Trail - 2008


This year the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Sarsen Trail, and to mark this milestone is encouraging us to take part in the 'Walk for Wildlife Week' which precedes the Trail, Saturday 26th April to Sunday 4th May.

The Week will culminate with the Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon on Sunday 4th May... continues...
Chance Posted by Chance
5th April 2008ce
Edited 5th April 2008ce

Solstice: No Parking


From the NT website:
The main visitor car park to Avebury will be closed from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd June 2003 due to the large number of Solstice Visitors. No alternative car park is available... continues...
Holy McGrail Posted by Holy McGrail
17th June 2003ce
Edited 28th September 2003ce

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Folklore

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Sometimes there breaks out water in the manner of a sudden land flood, out of certain stones (that are like rocks) standing aloft in open fields near the rising of the river Kenet in this shire, which is reputed by the common people a fore runner of death. That the sudden eruption of Springs in places, where they use not always to run, should be a sign of death, is no wonder. For these usuall eruptions (which in Kent we call Nailbourns) are caused by extream gluts of rain, or lasting wet weather, and never happen but in wet years (witness the year 1648 when there were many of them) In which years Wheat, and most other grain thrive not well (for a plain reason) and therefore a dearth succeeds the year following.
From 'Britania Baconica: or, The natural rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales', written by J Childrey (1662).
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
2nd January 2011ce

Always beware of local people spinning a yarn. Could this be useful advice to visitors during the circus surrounding Silbury's latest excavations?
[Around 1776 when the miners were excavating Silbury] a correspondent of the Salisbury Journal, with the intention of throwing ridicule on the undertaking, narrated [..] that some years previously a poor boy who was carrying a pitcher of milk along the high road at that spot, fell down and broke the vessel. A tailor, who lived at Avebury close by, met the boy lamenting his case just at the same moment that a carriage appeared in sight. He, therefore, directed him to shout out lustily in order to excite the compassion of the passengers, and advancing up to the coach himself, observed that the poor lad had but too much reason for his lamentations, for the urn which he had broken had but just before been exhumed by his father, and as a piece of antiquity was of such rare value, that Dr. Davis of Devizes would no doubt have given a guinea for it. This declaration so wrought upon the curiosity of the travellers, that after due examination of the fractured vessel, and a consultation as to the possibility of uniting the fragments, they agreed to give a crown for the article, and drove off with their prize. The tailor then gave the boy one shilling, and appropriated four to himself.
From 'A History Military and Municipal of the Town of Malborough. James Waylen. 1854. p406.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
8th March 2007ce

Miscellaneous

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The latest here may be of interest - http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/ Heritage Action Posted by Heritage Action
21st April 2009ce
Edited 21st April 2009ce

Wiltshire Downs

The cuckoo's double note
Loosened like bubbles from a drowning throat
Floats through the air
In mockery of pipit, lark and stare.
The stable boys thud by
Their horses slinging divots at the sky
And with bright hooves
Printing the sodden turf with lucky grooves.
As still as a windhover
A shepherd in his napping coat leans over
His tall sheep-crook
And shearlings, tegs and yoes cons like a book.
And one tree-crowned long barrow
Stretched like a sow that has brought forth her farrow
Hides a king's bones
Lying like broken sticks among the stones.

Wiltshire Downs - Andrew Young (1885-1971)
Chance Posted by Chance
6th June 2008ce

A Village Republic

Sarsen is a village that has no great landlord. There are fifty small proprietors, and not a single resident magistrate. Besides the small farmers, there are scores of cottage owners, every one of whom is perfectly independent.
Nobody cares for anybody. It is a republic without even the semblance of a Government. It is liberty, equality, and swearing. As it is just within the limit of a borough, almost all the cottagers have votes, and are not to be trifled
with. The proximity of horse-racing establishments adds to the general atmosphere of dissipation. Betting, card-playing, ferret-breeding and dogfancying, poaching and politics, are the occupations of the populace.
A little illicit badger-baiting is varied by a little vicar-baiting.

Richard Jefferies, 1879
Chance Posted by Chance
20th April 2008ce

"These downes looke as if they were sowen with great Stones, very thick, and in a dusky evening they looke like a flock of Sheep: one might fancy it to have been the scene, where the giants fought with huge stones against the Gods. " Twas here that our game began, and the chase led us through the village of Avbury...."

John Aubrey, c.1650.
formicaant Posted by formicaant
26th September 2007ce

A curious watery factoid about the edge of the downs:
..The chalk ridge of Martinsell and St. Anne's Hill, not far from the centre of the county, furnishes three springs, which, as old Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary of the seventeenth century observed, 'do take their courses thence three several waies:' one to the German ocean through the Thames, one by Salisbury to the Channel, the third by Calne and Bristol into the Atlantic.
Renoted on p109 of a curiously anonymous article on Wiltshire in 'The Quarterly Review' no205, v103.(1858)
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
4th May 2007ce
Edited 4th May 2007ce

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UFO'S over Wiltshire Avebury, England July 26, 2010 by shivadamour


Chance Posted by Chance
10th December 2012ce

How to Travel to Avebury


Wiltshire council web page detailing some of the more environmentally friendly ways to get to Avebury other than by car.
Chance Posted by Chance
11th January 2011ce

The Heritage Journal


My Life in Stone(s) by Chris Brooks

Chris outlines his life in stone(s) writing that, "Eventually we had our first field trip and were taken to Lanhill and Lugbury Longbarrows. These two places are just a few miles from my doorstep and I never knew they existed. I was particularly interested in Lanhill with its stone walled entrance and little chamber. This was my first barrow experience and until this day I feel quite protective about it. Our next field trip was to the Avebury Complex including Windmill Hill, Silbury and West Kennet which just blew me away. The lectures and the field trip had such a big impact on me and gave me a love of the Neolithic people and their awesome structures which has remained with me ever since."
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
8th November 2010ce
Edited 22nd November 2010ce

Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury


Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury
by Hutchinson, Horace G.
Published in 1914, Macmillan (London)

Download the complete book in pdf format
Chance Posted by Chance
25th March 2010ce

Virtual Walkabout


Clive Ruggles's photographic walkabout at Avebury (includes resident sheep). You can imagine you're walking from the Sanctuary down to the circle (amongst other directions).
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
4th September 2006ce
Edited 4th September 2006ce

Avebury - A present from the past


Stukeley's map of the 'snakey' avenues going through Avebury, and the various monuments around.

From 'Avebury - A Temple of the British Druids' courtesy of Lithops' excellent website.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
28th February 2006ce

The Avebury Journal


All the latest news and observations from around the Avebury World Heritage site, brought to you by our friends at http://www.heritageaction.org
Jane Posted by Jane
23rd March 2005ce

Avebury WHS Interactive Map


Photos and information - plus (if your computer can take the pace) circle effortlessly above your favourite monuments with an aerial video clip.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
22nd December 2004ce

University of Leicester: Negotiating Avebury Project


One of the Web sites relating to a collaboration between the Universities of Leicester, Newport and Southampton. This page links to interim reports on the 2001 and 2002 seasons, including the excavation of Falkner's Circle.
Kammer Posted by Kammer
6th May 2003ce
Edited 6th May 2003ce

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Manton Down (Long Barrow) — Miscellaneous

The "Fallen Kistvaen" lies about three quarters of a mile due south of that in Temple Bottom, and owing to the heath and furze which abound thereabouts is not easily discovered. Parts of the mound which once covered it, and some of the stones which apparently surrounded it, are still to be seen.

When I first became acquainted with it - some twenty-five years ago - the covering stone, a very massive slab, was entire, but one or more of its supporters having given way, it had slid from its original position, and rested on the ground, still, however, in part upheld by some of its props; and thus, though fallen, presenting an interesting specimen of the kistvaen.

When, however, I visited it about ten years since (and I generally do visit it annually), judge of my dismay at finding the capstone split across by some workmen, who - ignorant that it differed in any respect from the many other sarsen stones lying all round - had selected that unfortunate stone for some building purpose. To arrest the work of destruction was not difficult, for on communication with the then owner, Mr. Baskerville, orders were immediately given that the stones should be spared; adn now that the property has passed into the hands of the noble President of this Meeting, we need not fear any farther injury to it.

The indifference of the stone-masons to the covering stone of the kistvaen is not so surprizing when even so good an antiquary as Aubrey relates how he and Dr. Charleton pointed it out to His Majesty Charles II. and the Duke of York as one of the stones intended for Stonehenge, and "resting on three low stones, as a suffulciment as in order to be carried away"!
On British Stone and Earthworks on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev. A C Smith, in the Wilts Arch Nat Hist Magazine, v19, 1881.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
13th May 2013ce

Temple Bottom (Long Barrow) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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13th May 2013ce

Temple Bottom (Long Barrow) — Miscellaneous

The "Mutilated Kistvaen" lies in the centre of the valley known as Temple Bottom, and south-east of Temple Farm, conjectured to be so called from the preceptory of Knights Templars established there in the reign of Henry II. It occupies the corner of a field, very near some detached farm buildings on the estate of Rockley. Sir Richard Hoare spoke of it in his time as "the mutilated remains of a stone barrow, having a kistvaen at the end of it;" and said "it is the finest example we have yet found of this species of interment, excepting the one in Clatford Bottom." (North Wilts, page 42.) I fear Sir Richard would not say the same of it now.

When I first saw it some twenty years ago, it presented little more than the appearance of a heap of stones: indeed a great many loose stones were scattered round the large and more prominent ones, and it was choked with briars and brambles. Unpromising however as was its exterior, I had a great desire to examine its interior, and having received the ready permission of the owner of the property (the same liberal gentleman who so kindly allows us to examine the barrows at Rockley on Thursday next, Mr. William Tanner), I enlisted the help of my friends, Mr. Lukis (then my colleague as one of the Secretaries of this Society) and Mr. Spicer, Rector of Byfleet, in Surrey, and on June 12th, 1861, we proceeded to excavate the stone chamber.

With regard to the formation of the exterior part of it, whether it was originally covered with one or more roofing slabs, and whether it had a covered passage leading to it, we were unable to form any decided opinion, owing to the confusion of stones and its generally dilapidated condition: but we found a sepulchral chamber, guarded by a circle of upright stones, some of them in position; and on the floor of this chamber indications of a layer of charcoal, calcined human bones, and fragments of coarse pottery: we found also several unburnt bones, portions of a human skull and teeth; some of the bones of a hand and foot; and above all a well-formed and perfect bone chisel (now in our Museum at Devizes), of which a sketch is annexed.

We then examined the narrow space between the two parallel upright stones, and at B found unburnt bones of a hand and foot and fragments of pottery, and at C portions of a human skull and teeth, and a stone muller or rubber. The orientation of this chamber was probably east and west.
On British Stone and Earthworks on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev. A C Smith, in the Wilts Arch Nat Hist Magazine, v19, 1881.

Something is amiss here, because the very precise grid reference on Pastscape is not to the SE of Temple Farm at all. But is perhaps the reverend misremembering - he is talking about something that happened 20 years ago. But then again, he knew the area very well.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
13th May 2013ce

The Longstone Cove (Standing Stones) — Miscellaneous

Mr. H. St. George Gray writes: "On Saturday morning, December 2, the southern of the two large stones at Beckhampton, in the parish of Avebury, North Wilts, fell without giving any warning. Had there been any indication of the likelihood of a fall, the owner of the arable field in which these large sarsens are situated (Mr. George Brown) would have had the stone propped. Within living memory it has always leaned to the south, whereas the stone standing some twenty-five paces to the north-east leans in a northerly direction. The fallen stone is rather the larger of the two. In its prostrate position it measures 18 feet 4 inches in length, its maximum width being nearly 16 feet; approximate thickness, 4 feet 7 inches. Its depth below the surface fo the field was found to be only 2 feet 6 inches; any sockethole there may be cut into the solid chalk must therefore be very shallow. Several small blocks of stones have been revealed by the fall of the monolith.

[...] On the Ordnance sheet the stones at Beckhampton are called 'Long Stones.' They are also known as the 'Longstone Cove,' and the'Devil's Quoits.' Aubrey spoke of three upright stones, but only two remained in Stukeley's time. [...]"
In 'Notes of the Month' for January 1912, The Antiquary v48.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
29th April 2013ce

Avebury (Stone Circle) — News

Archaeology walk with Dr Nick Snashall on 8th May


Was over at WK long barrow today when I bumped into a rather large but very well behaved group of people (inside the barrow). Dr Nick Snashall was leading a 'walking through the landscape' guided walk on behalf of the National Trust. The little bit of the talk I caught about WKLB sounded informative and, yes, I did learn something in a few short minutes.

Dr Snashall told me there is another such walk on 8th May (see her blog).

http://www.nicolaford.com/events.html
tjj Posted by tjj
17th April 2013ce

Silbury Hill (Artificial Mound) — Links

The Heritage Trust


Silbury Hill by Jake Turner.

"Jake Turner was born and bred in Swindon, Wiltshire, England and has been a keen photographer for around 2 years..."
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
11th April 2013ce

Winterbourne Bassett (Stone Circle) — Images

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