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South inner circle of megaliths within the Avebury henge stone circle. Nearer the middle of the monument are two additional, separate stone circles. The northern inner ring is 98 metres (322 ft) in diameter, but only two of its four standing stones remain upright. A cove of three stones stood in the middle, its entrance facing northeast.
The presence of ridges and gullies that happened to line up with the solstice directions may have been venerated, leading the Neolithic people to later build Stonehenge at this particular site. [ 6 ] The avenue, along with Stonehenge itself, is a scheduled monument , first designated in the 1882 act which was the earliest legislation to protect ...
Terence Meaden is an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork, Ireland. He is a retired physicist with a doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree in applied landscape archaeology also from University ...
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Avebury is the setting for Robert Goddard's thriller novel, Sight Unseen (2005). Avebury, in particular, The Cove, is the setting for some of the action in and is referred to throughout Elly Griffiths' novel, The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, No.11) (2019). [53]
In Avebury, which is home to another stone circle, two men wearing cloaks could be seen blowing horns as people gathered to watch the sunrise over the fields. Follow BBC Wiltshire on Facebook , X ...
Each circle contains smaller clusters of stone, including standing stones surrounded by elongated stones in a radiating orientation, forming a sundial which points toward the sunset on the summer solstice and allows for calculation of the winter solstice, the vernal equinox and the sun's movements.