Avebury

Avebury represents religious architecture of the Beaker and Bronze Age people and is both the most spectacular and most important early bronze age monument in Europe. Although the chronology of it's construction is uncertain, it dates from about 1800 B.C. making it roughly contemporary with Stonhenge which is to be found only 18 miles away. While Stonehenge has larger stones, Avebury is a much larger in area - 360 yards in diameter. It is surrounded by a 13 foot ditch but was originally some 30 feet deep, and is surrounded by a massive outer bank of chalk. It is a spectacular place to visit.

Avebury is a World Heritage site, in the care of the National Trust. It is a place of great spiritual significance. Like many ancient monuments, it remains in use by present day pagans. There are signs of ritual offerings in the area.

The music is called "Dusk" which is available on Transalarm Recordings -- a free royalty free download site: http://www.ta-recordings.com/v3/

The site is to be found 1 mile north of the A4 between Marlborough and Calne, on the A361 Swindon/Devizes Road

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[rickyroo]

I love the fact this is still your most popular video :-)

[hawker121]

@rickyroo This is testimony to the powerful aura which inhabits this place.

[hawker121]

Thank you for the clarification and for casting more light on the subject.

[StarMonkey]

Thank you for using my work...

Felix

Transalarm Recordings

[hawker121]

I am pleased to have the opportunity to thank you for making your work available - I think it sets the mood and fits the video well.

[Rick02115]

psychometric sense impressions of a very powerful sort. a mysterious energy, indeed. the place has been calling to me since age 8, about 20 years before i actually visited it.

[hawker121]

It must be just extraordinary to have such spiritual ability.

[ODAL123]

@Hexachloraphine grey/dark is good. its the rain that gives you a hard time. plus it was muddy and slippery : / cheers

[Hexachloraphine]

@ODAL123

It was really sunny when I visited, but I wanted it to be really grey/dark and lashing it down with rain...

so in that sense the weather ruined my trip as well

[ODAL123]

i went there today. the weather ruined my trip i HATE the uk weather :(

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

[postmasterw00t]

i went there a few months ago, very beatiful pesveful place

i wish we new why they built it but something tells me the ancients knew more about the world than we do

[postmasterw00t]

silbury hill is a mystery, why did they build it?

[2206411411]

Stonehenge is far better understood than Avebury, but they still don't know if it was a cemetary or a hospital. For Avebury, multiply the uncertainly by orders of magnitude. Few stones survive, an attached manmade hill was destroyed in an effort to obtain gravel, a stone structure below Silbury Hill is lost forever, and little remains of the avenues. We know so little, but it clearly meant so very much to the builders.

[scallywicca]

Yes, one half of the Michael & Mary line runs right thru the rock where the seat is. It's known locally as "the devil's chair".