Avebury

Avebury is the largest stone circle in the world. Silbury Hill was built at the same time as the Egyptian pyramids. How are the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Venus involved in the design Was a lost science once practised in these islands With numerous exquisitely reproduced old engravings and rare prints this delightful book by the late visionary and ecoactivist contains rare insights and fascinating new research.

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• 2 3 First published 2000 AD This edition Wooden Books 2002 AD Published by Wooden Books Ltd. 8A Mar
• 4 5 Contents Introduction 1 The Centre of the Isle 6 Aroun
• 6 1 I have been visiting the great circles of Avebury since I was small and it is always with high h
• 2 3 other people in an other time and an other kind of mind and perception, now mostly lost. I am in
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• 6 7 If you draw a line from the western tip of our island to the eastern point then you will discove
• 8 9 A short walk due north of Avebury just off the old map opposite takes you up to the ancient sett
• 10 11 sTones from The ICe Age getting to know the landscape When visiting Avebury it can be a very g
• 12 13 The beCkhAmpTon poT evidence of fine craftmanship 5000 years ago The pot shown opposite was fo
• 14 15 Aubreys Avebury the first known sketch of the site The first proper reference to Avebury appea
• 16 17 Although over three hundred years old and embellished with certain degree of romantic inventio
• 18 19 As we have seen, there are two huge stone circles at Avebury inside the main outer Great Circl
• 20 21 Avebury has four entrances, north, south, east and west, where the ditch is bridged and the he
• 22 23 At the centre of the South Circle a huge stone known as the Obelisk once used to tower over al
• 24 25 buried stones at Avebury as Alexander Keillers restoration was interrupted by the war and neve
• 26 27 The Cove a lunar clue at the centre of the north circle Two massive stones still stand at the
• 28 29 Professor Alexander Thom, the foremost surveyor of stone circles to date, published this solut
• 30 31 People often think of our ancestors as cavemen or prophets but they were also sophisticated a
• 32 33 Few stone circles are circular but Avebury is most unusual in that it has two sharp corners W
• 34 35 stones. Tall pillarlike stones male were chosen to face wider diamond or cloverleaf shaped on
• 36 37 A timber structure first stood here five thousand years ago, a few hundred years before Silbur
• 38 39 The serpenTs heAd and other ideas William Stukeley thought that since the Sanctuary was found
• 40 41 writing and he shows the position of recently removed stones with a circle. Stukeley was fasc
• 42 43 South of Avebury, over Waden Hill, Silbury Hill rises from its boggy bed. It is the largest n
• 44 45 Silbury Hill does fascinate people it is our own Great Pyramid, built at the same time that t
• 46 47 In 1969, Guy Underwood, a Water Board dowser from BradfordonAvon, published an extraordinary b
• 48 49 This is not a very good picture of the longbarrow, but it will suffice. Nowadays you can go i
• 50 51 On the other side of Fyfield Down is a dolmen, close to the A4. Known as the Devils Den, it c
• 52 53 they contain a circle of stones. On rare occasions they contain buried treasure, and this has
• 54 55 more mysTerIes lost artifacts and patterns of unicorns So much has been lost. The dolmen oppo
• 56 57 The funCTIon of Avebury the preservation of a fading cosmology Across the world people are flo
• 58 Adam and Eve, all that remain of the Beckhampton Avenue Cove.