The Avebury Standing Stones are part of one of the largest monolithic structures in Europe. It was built by tribespeoples more than 6000 years ago.
The inner circle is built of Sersen stones that were rolled on a log-conveyor belt system miles and miles from mines in South Wales.
Of course, I had to climb on them. #Coloradoan
The mounds around the edges of the structure are called Barrows, and are the site of mass graves containing hundreds of ancient bodies. There was a spooky air around the place; when we were walking over these mounds, dozens of tiny black spiders were in the midst of their mating season and, floating on silk parachutes, kept landing in our hair and on our bags! The dead ones wanted us gone apparently. Regardless of our welcome, it was a very interesting site.
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