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Evergreen Dazed Jun 26, 2017 10:30:37
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
I'm in a reading group which often challenges me to read something I wouldn't otherwise pick up. The current book is anything by Robert Goddard - I chose 'Sight Unseen' which starts "It begins at Avebury ..." How could I resist.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-440-24280-2

What bothers me though, is that while the author gets all the other details about Avebury correct (the Red Lion, Green Street, Silbury House) he refers to the Cove stones as the Adam and Eve stones. What takes place by these stones is integral to the plot. How can I let this little mistake undermine the rest of the novel - but somehow it does. Does this make me an anorak?

One of the 'Adam and Eve' stones is part of a cove. Perhaps thats what the author was referring to?

One time I was walking along Bray St I got talking to an old boy, a local, and he told me that locals always used to refer to Adam and Eve as the King and Queen. I'd never heard that before.

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tjj Jun 26, 2017 20:27:04
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
One of the 'Adam and Eve' stones is part of a cove. Perhaps thats what the author was referring to?

One time I was walking along Bray St I got talking to an old boy, a local, and he told me that locals always used to refer to Adam and Eve as the King and Queen. I'd never heard that before.

Thanks ED, that's interesting, I didn't know that about the Adam and Eve stones. The author obviously has an in depth knowledge of Avebury and Avebury Trusloe - had probably spent some time talking to the older locals, possibly even the man you mention above. The stones he is talking about in his novel are definitely the Cove stones you can see clearly from the Red Lion.

Nigel :) wave!

Roy, thanks. Yes I did know the Adam and Eve stones are the only two 'exposed' standing stones on the Beckhampton Avenue. I used to spend quite a lot of time over there with people from the now defunct Avebury Forum.