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 Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:54 pm
But Avebury is more than just a stone circle - although this is its main feature. There is also a rampart, a ditch and two mysterious avenues. The rampart or bank is on the outside, then comes the ditch. They both have four entrances and enclose some twenty eight acres. Inside these 'circles' - none of the circumferences are perfect, is the stone circle itself.
It once consisted of around one hundred unquarried stones; inside this larger circle were once two smaller circles. Only four stones of one of the smaller circles survive, although it is though there may have once been as many as twenty seven. None of the stones in the other small circle are now standing, although it is thought to have consisted of around twenty nine stones at one time.
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:55 pm
 Adam and Eve Stones at the Avebury Stone Circle.
Circle was set up by Bronze Age peoples c.1800BC, 200 years - earlier than Stonehenge.
Misty Avebury Stones. About 100 great sarsen stones and local sandstone from Marlborough Downs, still stand.
The Merlin Stone at Avebury. This villageis ringed by one of the most important prehistoric monuments in Britain.
Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire, England was regarded by many experts as the most important early Bronze Age.
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