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Northern end of the eastern rampart.

Round barrow in square enclosure.

Round barrow inside its square earthwork enclosure, with the fort rampart behind.

Round house site.

Southern rampart in lovely fresh snow.

Stone and Overton Hill barrows.

Looking west, with Cherhill on the skyline.

From the southeast.

The biggest stone at the site, downhill to the northeast of the circle platform.

The “cove”.

Towards Cherhill.

Looking across the “circle” with Tan Hill the skyline backdrop.

Looking north, Silbury can be seen far left, Overton Hill centre.

The northern end of the dyke, north of Wansdyke. The view is towards Allington Down. There is a rectangular medieval stock enclosure in the valley, directly above that on the slopes of Allington Down you can just make out the bushes on the Allington Down round barrow. Immediately to the right of that but not really visible in these conditions is Silbury.

Rybury from the slopes of Tan Hill.

From up the slope to the southwest. The view would be towards Avebury and the Ridgeway.

Some unidentifiable lump of iron farm machinery has been dumped on top of the mound.

Looking east towards Harestone Down.

Any surrounding ditch has been silted up.

From the northeast. The site of the next barrow in the group is near the tree in the background, left, but it’s so ploughed down as to be invisible on the ground.

From the south.

Looking east.

In midwinter mist.

Underneath the arch.

Through morning mist from Waden.

Groovy.

Towards the Avebury beeches, ghostly in the mist.

Shattered sarsen fragments, just below the bank of the henge at the end of the Avenue.

Misty, muddy Midwinter.

Looking west towards the snowy Brecon Beacons.

Approaching from the southwest.

Ysgyryd Fawr seen over Abergavenny from Pen-y-Graig below Blorenge, a few days after a snowfall.

The day’s end at Woodhenge.

The flint-covered grave mound.

The site of the Cursus long barrow, looking south towards Old King Barrows.

Stonehenge from the Cursus in soft autumn evening light. The line of Avenue can be clearly seen coming in from bottom left.

Looking west along the Cursus. Amesbury 56 round barrow can be seen inside the earthwork. The western terminus is out of site beyond the rise.

The low bank marking the western terminus of the Cursus.

Looking north from the barrow to the western end of the Cursus. The bank forming the western terminus is visible as the shadowed feature in the centre of the picture.

It’s not quite clear where the barrow ends and the ground surface begins, if there’s a ditch it’s silted up.

It’s in the trees, it’s coming. Etc.

It’s a monster. Monster of the Plain.