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Ένα ενδιαφέρον χωριουδάκι με ιστορικό υπόβαθρο και πολλά αξιοθέατα: 1. Avebury Stone Circle Ο μεγαλύτερος προϊστορικός πέτρινος κύκλος στον κόσμο. Σε αντίθεση με το Stonehenge, μπορείτε να περπατήσετε ελεύθερα ανάμεσα στους πέτρες. Ο κύκλος περιβάλλει ακόμη και το χωριό Avebury. 2. Avebury Henge Ο τεράστιος χωμάτινος προμαχώνας και η τάφρος γύρω από τον πέτρινο κύκλο. Από ορισμένα σημεία, μπορείτε να πάρετε μια καλή ιδέα για τις τεράστιες διαστάσεις της εγκατάστασης. 3. Silbury Hill Η μεγαλύτερη τεχνητά κατασκευασμένη προϊστορική υψομετρία της Ευρώπης. Ο λόφος βρίσκεται περίπου 2 χλμ νότια του Avebury και αποτελεί ένα συναρπαστικό μυστήριο της Νεολιθικής εποχής. 4. West Kennet Long Barrow Ένας ταφικός τύμβος ηλικίας άνω των 5.000 ετών, του οποίου οι ταφικοί θάλαμοι μπορούν να εισέλθουν. Ιδιαίτερα ατμοσφαιρικό νωρίς το πρωί ή το βράδυ. 5. The Sanctuary Τα απομεινάρια ενός ακόμη τελετουργικού χώρου της Λίθινης Εποχής στο τέλος του παλιού δρόμου της πομπής. 6. West Kennet Avenue Μια εντυπωσιακή λεωφόρος με όρθιες πέτρες, που κάποτε συνέδεε το Avebury με το The Sanctuary. 7. Avebury Manor Έπαυλη του 16ου αιώνα με όμορφους κήπους. Σήμερα διαχειρίζεται από το National Trust. 8. Alexander Keiller Museum Ένα μικρό, αλλά πολύ ενδιαφέρον μουσείο για την ιστορία και την αρχαιολογία του Avebury και των γύρω μνημείων. 9. Windmill Hill Μία από τις παλαιότερες γνωστές νεολιθικές εγκαταστάσεις της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας με όμορφη θέα στο τοπίο του Wiltshire.

Huge site that is steeped with history.

hiking poles might help up hill

Such a beautifully preserved village. It's bizarre that they put a road straight through it though.

Sidbury Hill, or Sidbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort on the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The site is sub-triangular in shape, approximately 17 acres in area, and is constructed on the site of a Neolithic settlement. The hill offers excellent defensive slopes on all sides, which have been supplemented by the double ditch and rampart earthworks. The settlement and hillfort were partially excavated in the 19th century and the 1950s; there were finds of pottery and other artefacts. A Neolithic settlement site was discovered during the excavation in the 1950s, being of a section of the south-east rampart of the hillfort. A number of flint flakes and tools were recovered. The site is a scheduled national monument. Trees planted in the 1960s were removed from 2002 and the area was allowed to revert to the natural chalk downland. Access to the site is difficult as it is on, or near, Ministry of Defence land, and there are many tank tracks and occasional artillery firing in the area. There are also numerous ditches, barrows, trackways, field systems, and tumuli in the area. Due to erosion issues climbing on the barrow is now forbidden. Such a shame, but understandable.

A well preserved bell barrow, the mound of which measures 22m in diameter and stands up to 2.8m high. The mound is surrounded by a berm up to 5m in diameter and a ditch 0.7m deep and up to 6.2m wide. One of these two bell barrows produced a sherd of Bronze Age pottery and a fragment of a polished greenstone axe, both found by Owen Meyrick. A bell barrow, the mound of which measures 24m in diameter and stands 2.7m high. The berm and ditch which surround this barrow have been levelled by cultivation on three sides but survive as buried features on the fourth. From measurements on the western side it can be seen that the berm is c.3m wide and that the ditch is c.5m wide.

Who wouldn't want to walk into a neolithic burial chamber? anybody? no? didn't think so!!! It was amazing!!! The monument includes six prominent Bronze Age round barrows which form part of a larger round barrow cemetery north-east of West Kennett Farm and west of the Ridgeway track on Overton Hill. This is the site of a round barrow which, despite being ploughed level, will contain archaeological information; the old ground surface beneath the mound and the surrounding quarry ditch, from which material was quarried during construction of the monument, will survive as buried features. The area of the mound has a diameter of 33m; the surrounding ditch is c.2m wide. A bowl barrow, the mound of which measures 41.5m in diameter and stands up to 1.2m high. The mound is surrounded by a ditch which has become infilled over the years but which survives as a buried feature c.3m wide. This barrow has been partially excavated on two occasions, in 1857 by Thurnham and again in 1882 by W & H Cunnington. The primary cremation burial was not located but two secondary cremations were recovered. One was located north- west of the centre of the mound and was accompanied by a flint scraper and a serrated flint flake; the other was situated east of the centre and contained pottery sherds of two vessels, a beaker and an urn, as well as a piece of antler and several bone pins. A bowl barrow, the mound of which measures 42m in diameter and stands up to 0.7m high. The barrow has been partially excavated on two occasions, in 1857 by Thurnham and in 1882 by Ponting. These revealed that the barrow mound contained a crouched skeleton in a grave partly lined and roofed with sarsens. This was covered by a sarsen cairn, itself ringed by a double circle of sarsen stones c.1m outside the edge of the cairn. There was no evidence of a ditch around this barrow. Other finds included a later crouched skeleton covered with sarsen stones, the skeleton of a child, three large urns full of burnt bones and the perforated head of a bone pin. A well preserved bell barrow, the mound of which measures 26m in diameter and stands up to 3m high. The mound is surrounded by a gently sloping berm or platform c.3m wide and a ditch 0.5m deep and up to 6.4m wide.

Mystical place.