Qualla: Avebury https://qualla.com/avebury en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:21 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Avebury https://qualla.com/avebury Avebury: Introduction https://qualla.com/avebury/ Photo credit Chris Collard, CC BY-SA 2.0. You can touch the stones at Avebury. Unlike Stonehenge, where ropes and fences hold visitors at a respectful distance, Avebury's megaliths stand in fields, along lanes, beside pub gardens, and in people's front yards. The largest stone circle in the world is so enormous that an entire village was built inside it, and that village is still there. Walking through Avebury is walking through a collision of timescales: Neolithic engineering, medieval agriculture, Georgian antiquarianism, and twenty-first-century tourism all occupying the same physical space, separated by millennia but sharing the same chalk ground.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-wp/gcns-avebury-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Avebury: The Monument Nobody Could Miss https://qualla.com/avebury/ Photo credit Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 3.0. Avebury was constructed over several hundred years during the third millennium BC. The monument consists of a massive henge -- a circular bank and ditch -- enclosing a great outer stone circle roughly 330 metres in diameter, with two smaller stone circles set within it. The outer...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-wp/gcns-avebury-the-monument-nobody-could-miss.mp3 0:06 2 full Avebury: Destruction and Discovery https://qualla.com/avebury/ Photo credit Public domain. By the Iron Age, Avebury appears to have been abandoned. A village grew up around and within the monument during the early Middle Ages, and from the fourteenth century onward, local people began systematically destroying the standing stones. Some were toppled into pits and buried...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-wp/gcns-avebury-destruction-and-discovery.mp3 0:06 3 full Avebury: Keiller's Resurrection https://qualla.com/avebury/ Photo credit Harold St George Gray, CC0. In the 1930s, the wealthy archaeologist and marmalade heir Alexander Keiller purchased much of the site and began an ambitious programme of excavation and restoration. He re-erected fallen stones, marked the positions of destroyed ones with concrete pillars, and excavated portion...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-wp/gcns-avebury-keillers-resurrection.mp3 0:06 4 full Avebury: A Landscape of Monuments https://qualla.com/avebury/ Photo credit Photograph by Greg O'Beirne, CC BY-SA 3.0. Avebury does not stand alone. It anchors a constellation of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments spread across the surrounding downs. West Kennet Long Barrow, one of the largest chambered tombs in Britain, lies a mile and a half to the south. Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric a...

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