Stone Diaries

A field journal of ancient sites

avebury

  • 23rd September 2023 There’s a certain sense of thrill in setting eyes on a site for the first time, especially one so iconic. A bipedal giant, seemingly frozen in time as it rambles across the Marlborough Downs. To see it rise over the brow of the hill was breathtaking and resulted in a surge of… Read more

  • Avebury at dawn

    27th May 2023 It was a true pilgrimage, if ever there was one. Awake at the unfeasible hour of 3am and in the car by 3.15am, hurtling down the road. By the time I joined the motorway, I was aware of dawn’s first light creeping steadily over the horizon, a race against time. While dawn… Read more

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