Avebury, The Avenue c.1955
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These stones form part of the famous Kennet avenue, a ceremonial avenue that links the southern entrance of Avebury to a smaller stone circle, the Sanctuary, about one mile away. Along this sacred avenue dead bodies were probably carried to the temple of Avebury. Fertility rites dominated Neolithic man; it has been suggested that the shape of the Avenue stones - alternating pillar and lozenge shape - represented male and female fertility.
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