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Extract from the Avebury Travel Guides:
Immediately to the west of West Kennet, the village of
AVEBURY
stands in the midst of a
stone circle
(free access; NT & EH) that rivals Stonehenge - the individual stones are generally smaller, but the circle itself is much wider and more complex. A massive earthwork 20ft high and 1400ft across encloses the main circle, which is approached by four causeways across the inner ditch, two of them leading into wide avenues stretching over a mile beyond the circle. The best guess is that it was built soon after 2500 BC, and presumably had a similar ritual or religious function to Stonehenge's. The structure of Avebury...
read the whole Avebury Travel Guides...
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