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Re: The Stukeley Line
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Avebury certainly is unique but not in the sense that it’s never been disturbed.

The closest parallel to Avebury that springs to mind is the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Pickering, North Yorkshire. Pickering Church contains the most complete set of medieval wall paintings so far discovered in Britain. Executed over 500 years ago the paintings remained hidden under a thick coat of plaster until they were accidentally rediscovered in 1852.

The Pickering wall paintings are not so very different to the Avebury megaliths in so much as both were/are ‘hidden away’ by fairly (in historical terms) recent activities. The Pickering paintings could have been left behind their layers of plaster but what would have been the point?

Similarly, what is the point of leaving the Avebury megaliths buried or recumbent - especially as most of them have only been in that position for a few hundred years and the accompanying archaeology is probably of minimal importance (certainly far less important than having the stones re-erected and the Henge returned to some of its former glory).


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
20th January 2013ce
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