A mega-megalith at Avebury
Megalith: noun, singular, from Ancient Greek megas (great) and líthos, (stone).
Naturally occurring megaliths are found throughout the world. Alignments of megaliths are less common and clearly the work of human hands.
The best-known English examples are at Stonehenge and Avebury. The Avebury setting contains the most mega megaliths!!!
49 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Megalith
Photos from scans, the originals taken on film in 2004.
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They’re huge!
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I wanted to use the photos I’d taken, though now it’s so long ago. I thought mine shows the size that so impressed me.
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I love that you used your own photos (I would expect nothing less).
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I was delighted with how well they scanned. All my Glastonbury photos. I doubt I’ll ever go there again. Such memories….
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Wonderful! And hey, you never know…
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Yea, right. Many reasons why that’s not gonna happen
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Arranged by giants?
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That’s said of Stonehenge. And yet Avebury is bigger. Not only in its stones but the depth of its ditch and the height of its now-eroded bank. That bank and ditch stood like a high white wall around the site, the subsoil being white chalk. And those stones have a high mica content: they sparkle when wet and in the moonlight, like fairydust sprinkled upon them. And if that’s not enough, they give an electrical charge. Hmmm. quite a site
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Must be a fantastic place to visit. Magical.
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Yea. It is. And for the first time ever I became disoriented, couldn’t find my way out of the circles, which way to go to Silbury Hill… odd
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It might be actually magical.
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II’d been studying the map that morning before we went out, and had noticed a number of tracks and roads name ‘Hare’. Of course, I’m thinking of the animal, the hare. So I wasn’t surprised to the West Kennet barrow looking like a hare crouched on a hilltop. But no. The hare referred to the paths an army had used.
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I would like to visit when things get better
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England (Britian) is a beautiful land. Small, cosy, with millennia of treasures.
Alas, so many overseas visitors go only to London. London is not England. In fact, very few English folk live in London.
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You’re so right! I’d love to visit Scotland and Ireland too.
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You’ll like that. Beautiful places
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Indeed. 👍
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🙂
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That’s pretty. I wonder how they transported them.
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Lots of experiments have been undertaken with that in mind. Lots of ways discovered. Our ancestors were clever, inventive. They’d not been dumbed-down with modern technology
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So true
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🙂
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Film images just have a certain quality you can’t replicate, even though technically film will always have the highest possible resolution (you can’t get higher resolution than molecular – just limited by the lens focus).
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But I was amazed they scanned so well.
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Oh yes!
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🙂
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One that’s definitely on my wish list to go to, I hear it’s much more impressive than Stonehenge.
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Indeed it is. And unless they’ve changed it, you can get up close and personal with the stones. It’s massive
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