Abstract
OPERATIONS for the exploration and restoration of the avenue leading from Overton Hill to Avebury, which were bogun by Mr. Alexander Keillor last year, have been resumed. It is expected that all the surviving stones of the avenue will shortly have been placed in their original positions. The recent work has yielded information as to the original plan and method of construction additional to that obtained last year. Six stones, it is stated in a report in The Times of August 24, have been re-erected this year, including two of the largest megaliths known in the whole of the avenue, and the only two remaining stone-holes in the section have been identified; and at tho time of writing two stones were still to receive attention. Of these, No, 9 is the only one which has never fallen. Advantage will be taken of the concreting, which will make it safe for future generations, to examine the method of packing followed when it was erected originally. The companion stone, No. 10, re-erected by Mrs. M. E. Cunnington in 1912, was shown by last year's examination to have been replaced some distance from its original position, as well as back to front and upside down. It will be placed in its correct position in its proper stone-hole, which has recently been discovered. In the next section, excavations are being undertaken on the sites of the stones between tho north-western limits of last year's operations and the entrance to the circle. Here evidence has been found to show that at least two of the stone posts were broken up on tho spot and without the use of fire. No. 39, partially uncovered in the laying of a pipe-lino in 1913, and No. 40 have now been completely excavated, and will be re-erected shortly.
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Restoration at Avebury. Nature 136, 330 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136330b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136330b0