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Pete G P
Pete G Dec 10, 2002 12:14:16
Replying to Aspinall

The stone that Keiller put the other way up was one that Maud Cunnington originaly erected on the Kennet avenue.
Keiller decided it was the wrong way up because when he excavated the base to prepare it for a concrete platform he noticed the stone didn't fit the socket so he up ended it.
Some thought that he did it to get at Cunnington who he had a long term row with.
If Keiller never worked at Avebury it would now look much like Marden henge but with more houses.
PeteG

M Merrick
Merrick Dec 10, 2002 15:12:52
Replying to Pete G

What amazes me is how the Natioanl Trust have never finished Keiller's work at Avebury. He did the West Kenett Avenue and , the south inner circle and two quadrants of the great circle.

The rest of the site still has buried stones, readily found, readily re-erected and presumably not overly difficult to sort out which way up, either. All it takes is a bit of will from the National Trust.

Imagine if the east side of the circle were as restored as the west.

It's quite mad that we had to wait for so long for the, ahem, discovery of the Beckhampton Avenue, but it's totally nuts that the stones aren't being re-erected there too.