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#Venus and #Jupiter: #Conjunction from #Avebury
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

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English writer John Aubrey, who died OTD in 1697, was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern #England, especially #Avebury https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/avebury/?s=mb #travel #prehistory

Avebury and its Megaliths

A detailed visit to the great Neolithic stone circle at Avebury, older than Stonehenge. Also the nearby Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, and other tumuli and megaliths.

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Marvin (Paranoid Android)5d ago

Some of the stones at #Avebury in Wiltshire taken a few years ago.
I much prefer this to Stonehenge, far larger, fewer visitors, and a VILLAGE in the middle of it!
#StandingstoneSunday #StoneCircle #Photography #History

Chris Bond May 24

#1289 Ian Edelman - Discovering Avebury. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1995, Shire Discovery No 280, 1st edition, 6th impression.

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#Avebury 18/4

Lost hat on a hill. #avebury #wiltshire

Tim May 2

I finished the Ridgeway in 6 days on Thursday - nearly 87 miles, over 100 with my extension- making the trip 8 days total with the walk from the secret location that will be revealed in the video!

I got to Avebury the day before May 1st - Beltaine - and found out the pagans were doing events there in the morning, so found a random field to crash in until 4am and went and saw the sunrise on West Kennet Long Barrow - an amazing place. Coming full circle (sunset at Ivinghoe, sunrise at West Kennet). It's chamber faces the sunrise, and so I listened to the swallows who live in there chirp and swoop out dramatically about a minute before sunrise

I was alone on West Kennet - actually got there 20 mins early - it was very emotional, then to the Red Lion for the Well Dressing ceremony, I just missed the ceremony proper - they even had a May pole! But it wasn't about communal things for me, it was for John. 1/2

#beltaine #avebury #ridgeway #hiking #hikingadventures #longdistancewalk #wildcamping #westkennet