Exploring the Avebury Landscape | Walking Through Prehistory

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埃夫伯里坐落在伦敦以西偏南100多公里的索尔兹伯里平原上的威尔特郡。一望无际的绿色旷野上,一群拔地而起的巍峨巨石,堆垒得井然有序,俨然是一处残缺的祭坛圣地,这就是是世界上最大的巨石林,也是欧洲最大的史前古迹。这个由史前遗留下的糙石巨柱环绕而成的巨石林,它的巨大意义没有人能够说明白。这个圣地和周围各种各样的新石器时代的遗址,为研究史前时代提供了无与伦比的证据。

The Avebury World Heritage Site is a unique complex of prehistoric monuments.

Today we're going to be visiting some of the lesser-known prehistoric monuments in the Avebury landscape.

Most of these monuments are accessible and you can walk between them, and that gives you a really good sense of the whole landscape and how these monuments are connected together and the different fascinating stories that each monument has to tell.

Silbury Hill is the largest prehistoric monument in the whole of Europe, and it's a pretty dominant place here in the Avebury landscape.

You can't really miss it when you drive past on the A4.

Many people have thought, what on Earth is inside this enormous mound?

Is it a burial mound?

Is there somebody rich inside buried with grave goods?

And in the past, people have been tunnelling into the mound to find out what was inside.

And although they found out a lot about the different phases of the mound and how it had been constructed, there is no central burial: it's not a burial mound; it's a mound built for other purposes.

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