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• Foot of Avebury Down Dig – Day 1

  Originally posted on FragmeNTs: We’re just coming to the end of Day 1 of our  first full- blown excavation in the Living with Monuments Project which is…

• Into Silbury Hill

  Originally posted on Archaeology National Trust SW: I saw it once by moonlight. Returning on the Marlborough Road in the dark, surrounded by silver-washed, gently…

• A chance to meet Stonehenge ancestors. Neolithic long barrow burial mound discovered between Stonehenge and Avebury.

  A “house of the dead” dating from more than 5,000 years ago could contain the remains of the ancestors of people who lived around Stonehenge,…

• Was Avebury Stone Circle a Square: Wiltshire Avebury neolithic ‘stone square circle’ discovered.

  An ancient “square stone circle” has been discovered under the Neolithic stones at Avebury in Wiltshire. The “surprising find”, which is 30m (98ft) wide, was…