Places of Pilgrimage

Avebury

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Avebury in Wiltshire, England, is the largest stone circle in the world and one of the world's most extensive megalithic monuments, attracting pilgrims from all parts of the world.

The village of Avebury sits within the huge stone circle which is surrounded by an immense henge, with serpentine avenues leading off to the west towards Windmill Hill, and to the south the West Kennet Avenue towards Silbury Hill and West Kennet longbarrow. Within the southern sector of the stone circle is a smaller group of megaliths known as The Cove.

Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Old Sarum are a little further east.

Avebury is a major node point on the St Michael ley, discovered by Hamish Miller's comprehensive dowsing of the alignment as described in detail in The Sun and the Serpent. It was here that the intersection of the Michael and Mary lines was first discovered.

The 2005 crop formations shown here were situated adjacent to the junction of the West Kennet Avenue with the Avebury henge.

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