Colleen Morgan · @clmorgan
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The stones at Avebury weren't always as they now appear!

Fran Allfrey (the amazing postdoc on the Avebury Papers project) has been digitising the Avebury archive and comes across treasures such as these: the domestication of ancient places.

#avebury #archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #archives

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Colleen Morgan · @clmorgan
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Fantastic flying visit to , camping with Southampton and Bournemouth’s field school. Blog post coming soon.

#avebury #archaeology

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Colleen Morgan · @clmorgan
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Passing by an unknown, lesser henge on the way to the better one:

#avebury

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Sarah Collins · @RandomSarah
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Went the scenic route to hang out & walk with my brother.

#spring #avebury #standingstonesunday #bankholiday

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Mark · @driftinginlowercase
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Pezzle · @RoseThorns
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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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English writer John Aubrey, born OTD in 1626, was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern , especially cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/av

#england #avebury #travel #prehistory

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Travelling Light Off Duty · @picturemojo
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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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English archaeologist and physician William Stukeley, who died OTD in 1765, pioneered the scientific investigation of the structures at and Stonehenge cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/av

#megalithic #avebury #archaeology

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Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
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English archaeologist and physician William Stukeley, who died OTD in 1765, pioneered the scientific investigation of the structures at and Stonehenge cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/av

#megalithic #avebury #archaeology

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Literally had to down tools on this until some new scorpers arrived. I aim to finish my first view of Avebury cove this weekend

#avebury #wiltshire #woodengraving #printmaking #stonecircles #alttext

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Threetails · @threetails
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Leaving it here for today, this is four hours in and taking shape nicely. That sky deserves fresh eyes tomorrow though [photo flipped horizontally]

#printmaking #woodengraving #StandingStoneSunday #avebury #wiltshire

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Avebury Cove on a 6 x 4cm pearwood block, ink wash, pen and white pencil ready to be engraved. The close-up image reversed

#StandingStoneSunday #printmaking #avebury #wiltshire #woodengraving

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Taking some new impressions from this lino block today. Cherhill Down and the White Horse

#printmaking #linocut #avebury #wiltshire

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J. A. Pollard · @japollard1
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Mark · @driftinginlowercase
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Charcoal and pencil sketch of Avebury Cove, trying to capture that late afternoon light. Next I’ll be condensing this to a white line design on the boxwood block

#sketching #printmaking #woodengraving #avebury #StandingStoneSunday #alttext

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Avebury Cove stone and outlier in late afternoon sun, looking towards the Ridgeway. Charcoal pencil study for a new wood engraving

#StandingStoneSunday #avebury #sketch #woodengraving #printmaking

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Travelling Light Off Duty · @picturemojo
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