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	Avebury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name.
		He was able to demonstrate that the Avebury builders had dug down 11 m into the natural chalk in excavating the henge ditch, producing an outer bank 9 m high around the whole perimeter of the henge and using red deer antler as their primary digging tool.
		Avebury is seen as a spiritual centre by many who profess alternative religions such as paganism, wicca and druidry, and indeed for some it is regarded more highly than Stonehenge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avebury_Henge (1419 words)

	The Henge Shop, Avebury, Wiltshire - the shop within the Avebury Stone Circle
		The henge encompasses 28.5 acres and the outer stone circle is the largest in the world.
		This fact suggests that the first largescale organisation of society was that of the Avebury complex and this idea is supported by evidence of early farming acitivity (~4000BC), revealed by excavations at Windmill Hill.
		The purpose or function of the henge with its dual avenues and two inner circles is unknown.
	www.hengeshop.com /hsmain2.htm (377 words)

	Avebury Henge and Stone Circle
		The henge is the largest in Europe with a 1300 foot diameter covering nearly 30 acres and a ditch that was once 30 feet deep.
		The henge is contemporary with the outer stone circle and would have been a magnificent stark white when in use.
		The henge and outer circle would then have been built to enclose the area followed by the avenues to connect two other important sites to the main temple.
	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/avebury.htm (1023 words)

	A Walk in a Neolithic Landscape
		Visitors may walk the Avebury henge, one of the largest stone circles in England, visit the monuments known as Silbury Hill, Windmill Hill and The Sanctuary, wonder at West Kennet Long Barrow and walk West Kennet Avenue, a palisade of stones which links the Avebury circles with The Sanctuary.
		It is possible that stone from this area was used both at Avebury and at Stonehenge, the difference being that the architects of Stonehenge worked the material with stone mauls, whereas the builders of Avebury left the stone natural and unfinished.
		In the early Neolithic, the region of Avebury was heavily forested with a dense canopy of oak, birch, yew and ash woodland, accompanied by an understory of hazel, hawthorn and flthorn.
	merganser.math.gvsu.edu /myth/April03.html (1568 words)

	Merlin's Realm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Avebury henge, although not as well known as Stonehenge, dwarfs the latter in its size and structure.
		Henge monuments, distributed throughout Britain (although mainly lying on the western side of the country) were first built around 3,000 BC.
		As can be seen the henge is not an exact circle with only the south-eastern part conforming to the circumference of a circle which also touches the stone circle in the south-west and the north.
	www.kch42.dial.pipex.com /Avebury.htm (926 words)

	Avebury World Heritage Site Management Plan
		The boundary of the Avebury WHS encloses an area of 22.5 square kilometres around the six key prehistoric monuments in the care of the state (in “Guardianship”) which form the basis of the WHS designation.
		The rest of the WHS is in multiple ownership and is an intensely farmed landscape with a thriving local village at the core of the area.
		Gain recognition for Avebury as a very special place for which special treatment should be given by government departments, agencies, landowners and visitors in order to safeguard the historic environmental assets of the WHS and their setting for the benefit of succeeding generations.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archcom/projects/summarys/html98_9/2257aveb.htm (2049 words)

	M E g A L i T h i A - Avebury
		No mere slight ditch in the ground, the henge at Avebury is a ditch 30ft (9m) deep rising to a bank over 15ft (4m) high.
		Without these men, our knowledge of Avebury would be much poorer than it is. John Aubrey, whose careful fieldwork recorded much of the plan of the stones before the destruction of much of the site by Victorian farmers.
		Sketch of Avebury - the blue area is the sunken ditch, and the yellow area is the raised bank.
	www.megalithia.com /avebury (438 words)

	Archaeogeodesy, a Key to Prehistory IV, by James Q. Jacobs
		Henges proliferate in the east of Britain while stone circles abound in the west, and henges and stone circles are combined in the transition zone.
		Avebury is also a dramatic outlier among stone circles, with an outer stone circle having a mean diameter of 331.6 m.
		Inside the gigantic Avebury henge and stone circle are located two megalithic stone circles of 103.6 m, the same diameter as two other stone circles, the circle around the Newgrange tumulus in Ireland and the Ring of Brodgar in the Orkneys.
	www.jqjacobs.net /astro/aegeo_4.html (1977 words)

	What is Henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henges are usually associated with the Late Neolithic, especially the Grooved Ware culture, the Peterborough culture and the Beaker people.
		Some henges have poles, stones or entrances that would indicate the position of the rising or setting sun during the equinoxes and solstices whilst others appear to frame certain constellations.
		Henges are present from the extreme north to the extreme south of Britain however and so their latitude could not have been of great importance.
	www.whatis.tv /Henge.html (832 words)

	Avebury, oldest megalithic henge in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AVEBURY, the most important and oldest megalithic henge in Britain, predating the druids with active use between 2600 and 1600 B.C. It is said to be the largest henge in the world.
		The avebury henge is surrounded on three sides by the marlborough chalk chalk downs and consists of a 15 foot high bank, 1,200 feet in diameter, encircling an outer ditch.
		The exact purpose of avebury is not known.
	www.paralumun.com /avebury.htm (250 words)

	Avebury Henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Avebury henge is a huge earthwork, around 480m in diameter, formed of a bank and internal ditch punctuated by four entrances.
		From the south of the henge, runs an avenue of stones - the West Kennet Avenue that leads to the remains of a small timber/stone circle, the Sanctuary and it is now known that a similar avenue leads west to Longstones.
		Avebury is owned by the National Trust, who also own and run the Alexander Keiller Museum at the site and, like many of the other sites in the region, is a scheduled ancient monument.
	www.nifty-fifties.com /Vacations/2002/AveburyHenge.htm (402 words)

	Ancient Stone Circle: Visiting the Avebury henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AVEBURY, England -- Avebury may not be as convenient, famous or spectacular as Stonehenge, and you may never have heard of it.
		Avebury's stone circle dates to around 2600 B.C. Experts are still trying to determine its exact age, purpose and builder.
		Avebury's henge -- a circular area with a bank and ditch -- originally contained almost 100 large, unshaped stones, some weighing more than 40 tons and twice as big as any at Stonehenge.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05237/558596.stm (762 words)

	Cove (standing stones) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cove is a term used to describe a tightly concentrated group of large standing stones found in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
		Coves are square or rectangular in plan and seem to have served as small enclosures within other henge, stone circle or avenue features.
		The cove at Stanton Drew in Somerset and
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cove_(standing_stones) (142 words)

	Avebury, love nest, Womb. Stonehenge, a man made Sun.
		Avebury is a Super-Henge that lies approximately 18 miles to the North of Stonehenge.
		This massive henge a quarter of a mile across is connected via an avenue of standing stones almost two miles long (The Kennet Avenue) to a small henge known as the Sanctuary.
		Most of Stonehenge's ideas were taken from the Avebury henge, but at Stonehenge we have the Father and the Mother in an almost bisexual arrangement.
	www.geocities.com /tmwfl (4659 words)

	Avebury Henge Shop - the shop in the Avebury Stone Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally three medieval cottages, the building which is now the Henge Shop was enlarged and heightened in the 17th century.
		It was thatched until the early 20th century and is constructed of sarsen stone, chalk blocks and brick.
		It features on Stukeley's map of Avebury of 1723 and has served as the village fire station and post office.
	www.hengeshop.com (245 words)

	Avebury - Stone Circles and Henge - Ancient Sites Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A henge is a roughly circular prehistoric earthwork consisting of a ditch and bank with a level plateau in the centre.
		Stonehenge, Avebury, Mayburgh and Arbor Low are all examples of henges which contain (or contained) stone circles.
		Overlooking the village of Avebury and the stone circle to the north west is the Windmill Hill encampment (complete with round later barrows).
	www.henge.org.uk /wiltshire/avebury.html (895 words)

	Review Sheet: Neolithic
		Both the stones inside the henge as well as the ones lining the two avenues, are almost as large as the ones at Stonehenge, and come in alternating sizes of very broad (deemed to be "female") (Figure 11) and narrower more phallic ones possibly meant to be "male" (Figure 12).
		The "pairing-off" motif at Avebury, in both rings and the types of stones, has suggested to Dames that a marriage (and probably overtly sexual) ceremony might have been performed here, in high summer, when crops are growing.
		Silbury Hill (about a mile to the south of the Henge) (Figure 14) is surrounded by an oddly shaped pool of water, which, from ceremonial platform at the top of the steep hill, visually suggests an earth goddess --with the hill itself as a huge pregnant belly.
	gate.cia.edu /cbergengren/arthistory/neolithic (2223 words)

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		Avebury Henge is an enormous henge and stone circle site at Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire.
		A massive ditch and external bank henge 421m in diameter and 1.35km in circumference encloses an area of 11.5 hectares (28.5 acres).
		He was able to demonstrate that the Avebury builders had dug down 11m into the natural chalk in excavating the henge ditch, producing an outer bank 9m high around the whole perimeter of the henge and using red deer antler as their primary digging tool.
	www.display-cabinets.uk.com /news9/avebury.html (1229 words)

	ANTIQUITY: New features within the henge at Avebury, Wiltshire: aerial and geophysical evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The earliest aerial photographs of Avebury held in the National Monuments Record were taken on 22 June 1924, the most recent on 8 February 1996 (in exceptional snow conditions).
		In the northeastern quadrant, parchmarks of a further 11 stone holes of the Northern Inner Circle are seen, four of which were recorded during a survey of the earthworks carried out by the RCHME in 1990, and several by previous geophysical survey (Ucko 1990: plates 67A and 73).
		In the Outer Circle, 17 stone holes are visible as parchmarks in the northeastern and southeastern quadrants of the henge.
	www.stonehenge-avebury.net /mirror/bewley.html (574 words)

	Neolithic Monuments - Religion and Status
		Avebury is unusual both for the size of its monuments and for their geographical concentration.
		The Avebury henge was built between 2,600 and 2,300 BC.
		Renfrew's estimate for the Avebury henge is at least 150,000 days (figuring 10 hour days), more than the largest temple every built by the complex hierarchical societies of Hawaii.
	www.knowth.com /neolithic-religion-status.htm (3511 words)

	Cydonia & Avebury: the cosmic connection?
		When a map of the Cydonia region is reduced by a ratio of 14:1, the controversial features of the Martian landscape map quite eerily accurately onto markers in the Avebury complex in south west England including Silbury Hill, the Avebury henge itself and even the positions of now-lost obelisks inside the henge.
		On the northern edge of the Avebury henge there is a break where the path to the Ridgeway (an ancient track) can be found.
		This is one area of the Avebury complex which I am not personally familiar with (yet!) so I cannot make too much comment on these areas of study, but the maps do seem to correlate here as well.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/cydonrant.html (2149 words)

	World Mysteries - Articles by Ralph Ellis
		In the top right hand corner of Avebury there is a small circle, in its center there is a group of three large standing stones and, except for the Obelisk in the southern circle, these were the biggest stones on the Avebury site.
		I had found the link between Avebury and Stonehenge, the perimeter of the Aubrey holes is exactly one-quarter of the perimeter length of the Avebury ring.
		The designer of Avebury would have had to have left further clues to his prowess, otherwise nobody would believe him or that he had such a comprehensive understanding of our world in that era.
	www.world-mysteries.com /gw_rellis3.htm (3571 words)

	Avebury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is said to be the longest henge in the world covering 28.5 acres which includes most of the village of Avebury, located six miles west of Marlborough in Wiltshire, in southern England.
		The Avebury henge is surrounded on three sides by the Marlborough chalk downs and consists of a 15-foot-high bank, 1,200 feet in diameter, encircling an outer ditch.
		The most common thought is Avebury was built by the Beaker People, and was once a community of huts.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/avebury.htm (455 words)

	The White Goddess - Articles - Silbury Hill - 4500 Year Old Megalithic Mystery.
		Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, lies about one mile south of the Avebury Henge and is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments, the Avebury Circle, Marlborough Mound and West Kennet Long Barrow.
		Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, lies about one mile south of the Avebury Henge and occupies a low-lying site and except at certain points in the landscape, notably from the West Kennet Long Barrow, is barely visible.
		It is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments, the Avebury Circle, Marlborough Mound and West Kennet Long Barrow all being close by.
	www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk /articles/silbury.html (1502 words)

	The Avebury Complex
		There were four entrances to the henge cut through the bank and ditch, around the circumference was a circle of 100 gigantic sarsen stones, some weighing as much as 40 tons.
		Beginning at the south entrance of the henge begins is the avenue of standing stones known as West Kennet Avenue.
		When Stone Henge was complete, the central outer stones consisted of a circle of 30 upright sarsens, 17 of which still stand, each weighing approximately 25 tons.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/shaman/99/aveburycomplex.html (2506 words)

	Avebury Henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Avebury Henge es un sitio enorme del círculo del henge y de la piedra en Avebury en el condado inglés de Wiltshire.
		Una zanja masiva y un henge externo los 421m en diámetro y el 1.35km del banco en circunferencia incluye un área de 11.5 hectáreas (28.5 acres).
		Siendo un henge y una piedra circundar el sitio, las alineaciones astronómicas son una teoría común para explicar la colocación de las piedras en Avebury.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/av/Avebury%20Henge.htm (1346 words)

	Stonehenge.co.uk - Your guide to Stonehenge
		With Windmill Hill to the north west, water to the south in the form of the rising River Kennet and in addition important burial sites in the surrounding area, the most notable of which is West Kennet longbarrow, it is hardly surprising that it was ideal.
		It has been estimated that originally there were 400 standing stones within the henge and forming the great avenues at Avebury, with the heaviest, the Swindon Stone weighing about 65 tonnes.
		Avebury is a magical place, Michael and Mary, a pair of ley lines that run from Land's end to Bury St Edmunds, kiss near the stones in the southern part of the circle.
	www.stonehenge.co.uk /avebury.htm (1212 words)

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