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Re: Line of sight calculator

Dec 13, 2010, 16:18

I'm of the opinion that as long as ancient man new about the Ridgeway Path then he could find Avebury because it was THE main aim such was its importance.

We don’t actually know that Avebury (Henge) was the main aim, in fact the lack of human activity in the archaeological record there (compared to the area around Silbury) would suggest that Avebury always remained somewhat aloof from the hustle and bustle of the Ridgeway. That’s not to say that Avebury was not an important arena for large gatherings at certain times of the year. In fact the Bank on the outside of the Ditch (where spectators might gather) and the Avenues leading to the Henge itself, suggest that large ceremonial gatherings did take place there... the rest of the time it might have been completely out of bounds to Joe Public.

Hippisley Cox may have been quite right to suggest that it, “...was the seat of government and its authority extended as far as the roads that radiate from it...” though perhaps not that it was a continual central gathering ground... which in fact is not really so very different to the exclusion zones and isolated status we still see around our seats of learning and government today.

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