The Historic, Neolithic and Bronze age Village Of Avebury (Drone Footage)

This Drone Footage Video captures The Historic Village of Avebury.

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Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest stone circle in Europe.

Avebury is part of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site because of its outstanding Neolithic and Bronze age monumental landscape.The stone circles and henge monument are particularly unusual, not just for its size but also for the fact that it is the only stone circle with a village buit within it.

The Henge consists of a huge bank and ditch approximately 1.3km in circumference. The Stone Circle which lies within it is the largest in the world and contains within it two smaller inner circles. The stones themselves are of a local sarsen stone.

One of the stones tells a grisly story. Excavations by Alexander Keiller revealed the skeleton of a medieval barber-surgeon who was crushed beneath the stone when it was being buried in the 14th century by locals who wanted to remove the pagan stones from view.

West Kennet Avenue is approximately 4,600 years old, built in the Neolithic period at the same time as the Avebury stone circles were raised. The stones are thought to have originally linked the stone circle at Avebury to The Sanctuary around 2.5km away.

West Kennet Long Barrow was built 5,650 years ago and was used for around 1,000 years. It contained the remains of at least 46 people mostly in the form of skeletal material and cremated remains. Grave goods included pottery, beads and stone tools including a dagger.

The tomb is around 100m long but chambers within it only stretch a few metres from the entrance with the remainde rof the tomb being made of solid chalk. The entrance is fronted by large sarsen stones creating an impressive facade to the front. Inside is a 13m passage with four lateral chambers and one end chamber. These chambers are where the remains of the people were contained.

Equipment Used: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced
Location: Avebury, Marlborough, SN8 1RF
Editing Software: iMovie
Music Provided by: The Epidemic Sound Player (https://player.epidemicsound.com/#/search/?search_query=piano)
Music Title: Emotional Piano Theme 2 - Classical Piano, Sentimental - Composer: Martin Gauffin

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