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Month: August 2010

If The Stones Could Speak — Avebury, England

If The Stones Could Speak — Avebury, England

As you meander across Southwest England’s Salisbury Plain through rolling green hills and thatched villages, an ancient circle of stones appears through the mist. No, this is not Stonehenge. This is Avebury, a land steeped in myth and legend. Believed to date from 2,800 BCE, Avebury is actually older and larger than Stonehenge that lies about 20 miles to the south. The village, which bears the same name and has grown up around the stones, is an ancient Saxon hamlet….

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