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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Longstone Cove Alternative Name: Longstones Cove; Adam and Eve stones; Beckhampton Avenue
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Marlborough Nearest Village: Avebury
Map Ref: SU0888769301 Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.422652N Longitude: 1.873578W
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

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4 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
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3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
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rvbaker2003 visited on 10th Nov 2024 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

NDM visited on 1st Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

TheCaptain visited on 18th Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Legs working well after the first chiro session. Back to Avebury and walked around the henge and stones before a pint in the Red Lion. Still fairly early and legs feeling good, so walked down the route of the Beckhampton Avenue to Adam and Eve and a huge longbarrow before going back To Avebury and the car.

SandyG visited on 7th Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5

trystan_hughes visited on 1st Dec 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

jeffrep visited on 27th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

markj99 visited on 9th Feb 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 The two remaining stones remind me how impressive the cove and avenue would have been before all the stones were moved. We can however be grateful that Adam and Eve have survived to tell the tale.

johnstone visited on 30th Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

graemefield saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3

wildtalents visited on 6th Jun 2004 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 In 2004 we rented a cottage in Avebury village for a week and one evening when the boys weren't complaining too much about tired legs we walked the putative route of the Beckhampton Avenue. There really are a lot of sarsens at the sides of the road, incorporated into walls, half-buried at the side of the road and so on, as well as some very swanky houses. We ended the walk near the duck pond with a fairly distant view of the Longstones, Adam and Eve, isolated in their field about two hundred yards away. By then the kids were all walked out so it seemed reasonable to turn around and leave the trespass onto the site itself for another time. They're an impressive pair of stones, on a par with the Avebury Cove stones.

TheCaptain visited on 4th Oct 1998 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Visit lots of ancient sites on a long off road cycle tour from Avebury to Windmill Hill, along the Wansdyke and back up Kennet Avenue

NickyD visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4.08 Access: 4.17

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**Longstone Cove** submitted by Bladup : The remaining cove stone at midwinter (Vote or comment on this photo)

This mutilated scheduled ancient monument lies on the west side of Avebury and was originally a double stone row of length 1300 metres sitting at an altitude of 152 metres. At its upper end sits a stone circle and henge and a possible pillar at its lower end. It sits in a context of other barrows in the surrounding landscape. Longstones Cove has several alternative names, including the Adam and Eve stones and Beckhampton Avenue.

The Pastscape record for this monument number 215601 tells us: "Beckhampton Avenue, an avenue of stones which, according to Stukeley, extended from the west entrance of Avebury across the Winterbourne, and on in a south-westerly direction south of the Long Stones ... one of which could have probably formed part of the Avenue, to a spot in the valley west of Beckhampton (SU 100690 to SU 082688, see plans and called by him Beckhampton Avenue. Stukeley considered its length equal to that of the West Kennet Avenue, with the transverse and longitudinal intervals of the stones similar. By the time Stukeley made his plans there remained only thirty-odd stones (all but three recumbent) some in pairs, out of possibly two hundred, and by the end of the 18th century nothing remained except the Long Stones."

According to the Modern Antiquarian record for this site, two stones from where this avenue met the main stone circle have been removed and sit opposite the churchyard, with others being incorporated into the bridge over the Winterbourne stream.

Update September 2019: This 'substantial stone row' is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain's website - see their entry for the Beckhampton Avenue, which includes a description, photographs, a simplified plan of the alignment and associated monuments, access information and links to other online resources for more information.

This site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1008104 (Avebury Long Stones 380m east of The Grange Stables, Beckhampton): "The stones are all that is known to survive of the suspected Beckhampton Avenue".
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