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This photo was submitted to the Annual Outer Banks Photo Contest which is sponsored by Village Realty Outer Banks Vacation Rentals
The southwestern quadrant of the outer circle. Outside the circle of stones is a ditch, and then a bank; these were constructed at either the same time as, or up to several centuries earlier than, the stone circle. The circle is believed to have been erected between 2900 and 2600 BC.
During the Middle Ages, the villagers of Avebury came to associate the stone circle with the Devil, and starting in the 14th century, many of the standing stones were buried in pits next to where they stood. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley made the first studies of Avebury as an ancient monument. Their studies give valuable evidence about the former appearance of the stone circle, since at the same time, the now-Puritan villagers smashed up many of the stones that were still standing and used the pieces as building material.
Most of the stones in this, the southwestern quadrant, were buried in the Middle Ages. They were re-erected in the 1930s by the archaeologist Alexander Keiller. The low concrete plinths are markers erected by Keiller in places where he found a stone-hole but no traces of the original stone.
This week we are On the Go in the Outer Banks of North Carolina... Thing 1 & 2 are working on their craft each day... read here amomand2things.blogspot.com/2011/08/iron-craft-34-on-go.html