Avebury
Stonehenge should be on the list, obviously, but instead there’s the more approachable and equally enigmatic stone circle of Avebury. It doesn’t have the pomp and glamour of Stonehenge or the property that very famous monuments have of being quotations of themselves. Its stones stand quite casually on grass like immortal cows, with the geometry of the circle only slowly becoming apparent. Earthworks define the enclosure as much as the stones do. It adds to the experience that the village of Avebury seeps into the middle of the circle, such that daily life takes place among antiquity.
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