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Avenue stone on the west of the B4003, looking south. The next survivor south can just be seen on the left of the picture on the other side of the road.

Avenue stone on the west of the B4003, with rain splodge.

Stone on the east side of B4003, looking towards the Ridgeway and the Overton Hill barrows.

Broken Avenue stone in the hedgerow south of the A4, east of West Kennett Farm.

Another of the fallen Avenue stones on the south side of the A4, looking east.

Enormous fallen sarsen towards the eastern end of the Avenue, in the field east of West Kennett Farm and south of the A4.

Viewing the circles along the “avenue”.

The inner (stone) circle, looking NW.

General view of the site, looking SW. The outer ring is a surprisingly spacious 40m across.

Damaged but still impressive, West Overton 1, looking SE-ish.

West Overton 1, late spring.

West Overton 1 (SU11906797), approaching from the south. The easternmost of the group on the north side of the A4 can be seen in the background to the right.

The low mound of Avebury 23, the barrow in the field immediately to the south of the Sanctuary (SU 11846791), surrounded by crops.

Seen across fields from the south, visible but pleasingly inaccessible.

Looking up towards the top of the Down, NE barrow in centre of picture.

The NE barrow, looking WSW.

The edge of the NE barrow. Summer wouldn’t appear to be the time to go looking for a surrounding ditch!

The NE barrow, looking north towards Silbury.

Looking from the highest part of the down towards the NE barrow (with three bushes growing from it). The top of Silbury can just be seen to the left, peeking out from behind a clump of trees.

The site of the two SW barrows, ploughed to destruction.

Horton Down round barrow, seen from Allington Down to the east.

Looking eastwards along the prehistoric earthwork. The highest point of Tan Hill is over to the right of the picture. Wansdyke can be seen to the left.

The prehistoric earthwork crossing west-east at the western end of Tan Hill (runs from bottom left of pic). The more impressive – but much later – Wansdyke can be seen in the middle distance.

The NW bowl barrow, with the central barrow behind.

The NW bowl barrow, looking westwards over the plain below. The traces of a ditch can be seen faintly.

The NW bowl barrow, looking north. The darker earthwork bank of Wansdyke can just be seen behind the barrow, crossing from left to right.

The northern arc of the enormous disc barrow.

Close-up of the centre bowl barrow.

The centre bowl barrow, looking NW towards Morgan’s Hill and Cherhill Down.

The SE bowl barrow.

The SE bowl barrow, looking west towards King’s Play Hill (left) and Morgan’s Hill (right), both with their own barrows.

The SE bowl barrow, showing excavation damage.

Looking south along the N-S earthwork cutting across the western end of Tan Hill.

Multi-phase site? You bet. The linear earthwork running N-S across the western end of Tan Hill, visible in the picture as the lighter-coloured line crossing the centre of the picture. Above it the group of Bronze Age barrows, below medieval strip fields.

The western end of Tan Hill, seen from the approach from Kitchen Barrow Hill. The round barrows are silhouetted on the skyline.

The barrow from the east.

Looking along the west side of the barrow, with the remains of the ditch visible.

The barrow is clearly visible on the skyline from the NW.

Viewed from the south, on the footpath to Kitchen Barrow Hill. Wansdyke runs across the middle ground of the picture in front of the barrow.

Although reduced by ploughing, the barrow is still a prominent skyline feature from the south.

Seen from the SW.

Seen from the east, the long barrow is now hard up against the earthwork bank of Wansdyke.

Looking SW from Wansdyke.

Viewed from atop Wansdyke, only a low mound marks the position of the ploughed-down long barrow.

Stones of the southern inner circle.

An arc of cloud mirrors the curve of the henge.

The bank of the NE quadrant, approaching along the Herepath.

Using Grinsell’s numbering, Avebury 35 (foreground, overgrown SU11337049) and Avebury 36 (skyline SU1105770927). Seen from the Herepath.