Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Avebury 2013

Next morning we decamped and drove the two miles over to old friend Avebury and its henge, the largest of them all, too large to see or comprehend from the ground, center of a huge megalithic complex. All c. 2500 BC give or take...
Google view of Avebury; actually there are two smaller
circles inside the big one













A few degrees of the arc














Obviously Avebury enjoyed quite a few
visitors during the solstice too



















A small offering from one of the worshippers


















And another; plastic flowers...how nice














Vicki poses for scale by one of the medium-sized rocks














A bit of the huge ditch and bank that surrounds the thing














More of the arc














Adoration of the Mystic Sheep














At our favorite store in these precincts














And now driving back north toward more homes and gardens,
another White Horse, the Cherhill White Horse, a youngster,
done in 1780
















And a neolithic bus stop, complete with small menhir















1 comment:

Tawana said...

It is interesting how the stone circle is divided up by roads going right through the middle, and it even looked like there are houses and maybe a small settlement in the center. We were surprised to find that sort of thing in Brittaney last summer.