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Photo Pages: The Sanctuary. - Stone Circle in England in Wiltshire
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Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 04 November 2003 Page Views: 5394
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 Site Name: The Sanctuary. Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Stone Circle
Map Ref: SU118679 Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.410002N Longitude: 1.83173W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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   The Sanctuary. submitted by JJ
Ancient site in Wiltshire. Lying at the end of the West Kennet Avenue, alongside the A4 on Overton Hill, the Sanctuary at Avebury is now sadly just circles of concrete marker posts, similar to Woodhenge. According to archaeologists the site was constructed and modified in a number of phases, with eight rings in total (six wooden post rings and two stone circles).
Much speculation has surrounded the site and detailed arguments can be found in both Burl’s ‘Prehistoric Avebury’ and Mike Pitts ‘Hengeworld’ but it seems that the double-ringed stone circle formed the final phase.
A fantastic barrow cemetery known as Overton Hill straddles the A4 right next to the Sanctuary and a further stone circle (now destroyed) was reported in the field behind it – the site of this circle can still be seen when the field has been ploughed.
Note: Latest aerial photos from JJ
 The Sanctuary. submitted by croppy
The Sanctuary from the air
 The Sanctuary. submitted by AngieLake
Excuse the tilted angle - I'd waited so long in that layby for the sun to reappear!
 The Sanctuary. submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Looking south to the tufted grass (centre in the first field) corresponds with the OS map's location of a stone circle, just beneath The Sanctuary.
 The Sanctuary. submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Part of the information board, depicting an artist's impression of what one of the phases of The Sanctuary would have looked like.
 The Sanctuary. submitted by hamish
This stone is situated just inside the gateway to the Sancuary. Is it I wonder an Avenue Stone or a Sanctuary Stone.
 The Sanctuary. submitted by JimChampion
February 2005. Looking over the Sanctuary site, from the Avenue entrance. The modern ambience is a bit weird, like Woodhenge, with the little concrete markers showing where several phases of posts/stones once stood.
 The Sanctuary. submitted by JJ
Aerial Photograph copyright JJ Evendon
 The Sanctuary. submitted by vicky
The site of the Sanctuary at Avebury.
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Re: The Sanctuary (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 04 November 2003 | Despite visiting Avebury so many times I'd never bided at the Sanctuary until last Saturday, 31 Aug 2002. It's a sad spot in many ways, mainly the thought of what might once have stood there and the constant rush of the traffic on that dodgy road alongside. But even so I am so glad to have spent a few contemplative minutes there, alone but not lonely, imagining, looking at the remains of the avenue in the distance, getting a new view of the unity of the Avebury landscape. I'll call there each time in future.
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