Pictures from Avebury & West Kennet



A menhir with a house and stone wall in the
background. The wall probably contains broken
pieces of other menhirs


Amber standing next to one of the menhirs
(gives a sense of scale).



Someone had tucked a small red
wildflower into a crevice in this stone



Line-of-sight between two of the stones, and a true English Rarity: Blue Sky!


Here you can see a good portion of one of the
smaller, inner circles, and a bit of the edge of
the inner ring wall. In the background is a low
barn, and the spire of a church

This is part of the ditch and outer ring-wall surrounding the circle. This ditch is approximately 10 feet deep, and was originally about 15 feet deep, before erosion partially filled it in. This was probably dug using shovels made of deer scapula and picks made from deer antlers




A view of Silbury Hill, about a mile or so as the crow flies from the Avebury Rings. No one knows why this man-made hill was constructed, but it probably had some sort of magico-religious significance, as it is so closely associated with the West Kennet Long Barrow, right across the road.







Left: The entryway to the West Kennet Long Barrow, a 4-chambered clan or family burial mound, located in the barrow-and-circle studded Salisbury Plain. Right: Kellie, just outside the West Kennet Long Barrow.


A peculiar marking in the vegetation growing on the West Kennet Long Barrow.
Crop circle? Who knows!! Pretty odd, though.
No, that's not a UFO above the mound, it's a bird.




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