From Stuart… and a preview of Avebury in June
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…It was, after all, rather disconcerting to be thus accosted by a total stranger…
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“Does this count?” he demanded, ferociously,
and pushed an admittedly intriguing photograph across the bar at us.
“Does that count as what?”
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“One of them ‘Black’ places”
“Well, it might do, what is it?”
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“It’s one of them there mounds.”
“Is it really, it looks just like a pyramid of light?”
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“That’s why I was thinking it might count.”
“Strictly speaking, in order ‘to count’ it would have to be called
‘Black-something’ or ‘Something-black’. Does it have a name?”
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“Oh aye, it’s got a name alright.”
“And that name is?”
“Silbury Hill!”
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And at that, the Red-Lion, or so it seemed to us,
burst into a collective paroxysm of laughter…
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Hidden Avebury: Seeking the Unseen
Avebury, Wiltshire
12th – 14th June, 2020
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A Living Land…
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