Avebury...

Spent the morning photographing the stones at Avebury. Got plenty of shots, though I didn’t find it easy to ‘tell the story’ in visual terms. One problem is that the stones have been ‘suburbanised’; another is the fact that the National Trust is in charge; another is the sheer volume of people who come to visit. I wouldn’t want to be here on a sunny bank holiday.

Avebury may be a World Heritage Site today, but the value of the stones hasn’t always been recognised. Our descendants were so careless of their heritage that they built a village within the circle of stones, and a road across the middle of it. The Red Lion boasts that it’s the only pub situated inside a stone circle!

Most of my pix reflect this rather downbeat impression of Avebury. They’ll sell as stock pix, even if they’re not very appropriate for a book about different landscapes…

Dog offering his opinion on the Avebury stones...