On the northern side there’s not much in the way of ‘defensive’ earthworks just a slight rise in the ground level, but the river and bogs would probably have sufficed.
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Back round to the western entrance where the bank and ditch start to kick in again.
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Panorama looking north-west towards Sheepstor.
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Hint of a stone avenue going on here on the western side, but it doesn’t go far.
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A robbed out cairn just south-east of the circles.
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Panorama looking eastish on what was quite a miserable wet day on the moor.
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One of the larger stones with quite obvious drill holes. It seems this circle has been quite mauled in the past.
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Panorama looking broadly north. The stone with the drill holes is in the foreground to the right.
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Looking north with Fernworthy forest to the north east.
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Stannon Tor beyond to the south east. These hut circles are about the nearest habitations to the Greywethers less than half a mile due north. Maybe these and other nearby groups helped to build the double circle?
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Looking south.
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A great little circle on a perfect day. Mrs. Cane sits on guard in the background.
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Monumental clouds and slightly less than monumental stones, but charming all the same.
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Looking NW with what appeared to be part of a cist/cairn in the foreground.
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Shame it isn’t out on a wild and wind-swept bit of moorland, but hey, isn’t it a wonder to behold?!
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Looking west and bringing out it’s mushroom-like quality.
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Anyone else noticed this raised edge before? It’s sort of rectangular, but only just noticeable. Is it contemporary with the dolmen or maybe built later as a way of isolating the site to preserve it?
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Pan looking south east from the way up from the car park. The banks and ditches are more prominent on this side.
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Long shot looking south east. The Seven Barrows site is in the top right corner straddled by the A34.
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Pan of the southern entrance leading down to ancient field systems.
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Carnarvon’s rather plain grave set in a rather wonderful place.
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The larger of the barrows further down the valley.
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The barrow(s) nearest the pull in spot off the B4192 just south of Liddington Castle.
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Three of the barrows on the western side of the A34 with Beacon Hill lurking in the background.
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Climbing the southerly barrow with its profusion of wild plants and flowers. These really are monumentally huge mounds.
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View from the top of the most southerly barrow looking at two further barrows before the group disappears beneath the ghastly A34.
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Like the face of a giant green golf ball!
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One of the larger galleries with extensive rubble.
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At the base of the shaft with some reinforcing of gallery entrances. You can just about make out nodules of flint about 6 foot up, but the good stuff was at the bottom.
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One of the reinforced columns between galleries.
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Large sarcens in the garden wall of Swan House, Bray Street, Avebury Trusloe. Could these once have been part of the Beckhampton Avenue?
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A small piece of ceramic found in a mole hill. You can just about make out two parallel grooves running left to right.
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One of the saucer barrows with a Ridgeway backdrop.
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Panorama taken from the top of one of the barrows outside the outer ring.
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The larger bell barrow nearer the centre of the site.
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