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Re: Samuel Pepys' diary account of visit to Avebury
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But, about a mile off, it was prodigious to see how full the Downes are of great stones; and all along the vallies, stones of considerable bigness, most of them growing certainly out of the ground so thick as to cover the ground, which makes me think the less of the wonder of Stonage, for hence they might undoubtedly supply themselves with stones, as well as those at Abebury.


Wonderful, especially the, "...stones of considerable bigness, most of them growing certainly out of the ground..."

Have you noticed wysefool's post here http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3080 by the way?


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
17th February 2007ce
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