Avebury Cycle

By Michael Dames and Dames Michael

Book Overview

Avebury parish in Wiltshire contains an amazing collection of Stone Age monuments. Four thousand years ago this stretch of the chalk downs was the metropolis of Britain, with the tallest man-made hill (Silbury), the largest henge or sacred enclosure (Avebury), the great chambered cemetery of West Kennet Long Barrow and the two stone avenues of West Kennet and Beckhampton.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500278865
• ISBN13: 9780500278864
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"