Avebury’s henge and stone circles is one of the greatest remaining prehistoric sites in Britain. It’s been one of my favourite places to photograph over the years, and in keeping with a number of other locations from my earth-bound photography, its now getting the drone treatment.
Built and much altered during the Neolithic period, roughly between 2850 BC and 2200 BC, the henge survives as a huge circular bank and ditch, encircling an area that includes part of Avebury village. Within the henge is the largest stone circle in Britain - originally of about 100 stones - which in turn encloses two smaller stone circles.
Avebury is part of an extraordinary set of Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial sites that seemingly formed a vast sacred landscape and only a 25 mile drive from the more well known site at Stonehenge
