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Image of Morgan’s Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by Chance

Morgan’s Hill

Round Barrow(s)

The Wansdyke with the Radio Masts.
The site was only used after Alexander Keiller brought Windmill Hill to prevent the B.B.C. building the first radio transmitter outside London in 1924.

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Image of Morgan’s Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by Chance

Morgan’s Hill

Round Barrow(s)

Furze Knoll, with it’s guardian enclosing beech trees, sits on the top of the downs. If the Avebury region is sacred, then this high point must have been marked by something special.

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Image of Harestone Down Stone Circle by Chance

Harestone Down Stone Circle

Stone Circle

The Kauri-stone

The groove resembles the slit of the cowrie-shell which has been the universal divine yoni from extremely ancient to modern times.

In Hindu religious lore the megalith would be treated as a stone manifestation of the Goddess Devi-Kunti, and the cowrie-shell was her talisman.

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Image of Harestone Down Stone Circle by Chance

Harestone Down Stone Circle

Stone Circle

Stone Circle and the presumed Cove on Harestone Down.

At the centre of the 10-metre (33-foot) diameter circle is a quasi-pyramidal standing stone.

1 is a broken sarsen; 2: a fallen triangular sarsen; 5: a fallen sarsen: 6: the stump of a missing sarsen whose bearing from the centre is the Hallowe’en sunset; 7: a splendid high megalith but fallen. Its direction from centre is the May-Festival sunset (62 degrees west of north).

3, 4, 8, 9 are positions suggested for missing stones.

The ‘cove’ may have faced either midwinter sunset or midsummer sunrise.

The bearing from the ‘cove’ of the centre stone of the circle is 50 degrees east of north.
The distance between ‘cove’ and centre stone is about 35 metres (38 yards).

Image credit: Terence Meaden - 1999 The Secrets of the Avebury stones
Image of Aldbourne Blowing Stone (Natural Rock Feature) by Chance

Aldbourne Blowing Stone

Natural Rock Feature

The Aldbourne Blowing Stone – As you can see the stone is next to the village phone box and 3 meters from the Crown Inn. It has survived the water co., BT and the electric co. laying cables and digging trenchs around it.

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Image of Stonehenge and its Environs by Chance

Stonehenge and its Environs

The approach to Stonehenge by road from the east.

This view is one that has been seen by countless millions of motorists and their passengers travelling along the A303 to the West Country. As the sign at the side of the road says, ‘Fork left for Exeter’.

Stonehenge has not changed, but in 1930, in addition to the AA box, the view included two fairly new buildings. Dead ahead, in the fork of roads, lie the custodians cottages, built in 1920, and on the opposite side of the A344 is the slightly more recent Stonehenge Cafe.
This was not a popular addition to the setting of Stonehenge, being described at the time as `a cheap, flashy little building like the worst type of bungaloid growth’.
The cottages went first, the cafe followed soon afterwards.

Image credit: Unknown - NMR 1930
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

Easton Down

Long Barrow

At the E. end of the barrow there is a marked depression some 8.O m in diameter, which is probably the remnant of Thurnam’s 1860 intrusion.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008