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Woodhenge was built in about 2500 BC and revealed by aerial photographs taken in 1925 to be a leveled henge.
The bank and internal ditch enclose a circular area about 50m (160ft) in diameter with a single entrance facing north-east.  Shortly after its discovery the site was excavated by Maud Cunnington Her work revealed that within [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 17th 2014

After breakfast we set off for Avebury, taking in Woodhenge along the way.  Unfortunately Avebury was a little bit further than we thought. We didn’t have enough time there because we had a timed ticket for Stonehenge at 2pm.  The Avebury experience wasn’t helped by roadworks that made access to the main interests difficult.   [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 12th 2014

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