Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, Wiltshire
Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, Wiltshire
Avebury: England's other Stonehenge
Britain's largest surviving prehistoric stone circle is in Avebury, a picturesque Wiltshire village 40km north of Stonehenge. This stone circle is larger, older and arguably better than some parts of neighbouring Stonehenge, with a grizzly story behind the Barber Stone, a fight for survival from Pagan-fearing Puritans and a quest by Alexander Keiller in thw 1930s to preserve what was left.
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The Village of Avebury and it's Stone Circle - Avebury, Wiltshire, England
Avebury (/ˈeɪvbri/) is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury. The parish also includes the small villages of Avebury Trusloe and Beckhampton, and the hamlet of West Kennett.[2]....
Avebury Stone Circles:
Avebury (/ˈeɪvbri/) 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. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the 3rd millennium BC,[1] during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument was a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually extended into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project which reconstructed much of the monument.
Avebury is owned and managed by the National Trust, a charitable organisation who keep it open to the public.[2] It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument,[3] as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.[4]
Avebury, the largest pre-historic stone circle in the world. Manor House and Museum.
At the centre of a pre-historic complex in the Marlborough Downs stands Avebury, the largest stone circle in the world. This circle features one of the most impressive henges in Britain as well as remains of a stone avenue. Originally erected about 4,500 years ago.
A pretty village has grown up at the heart of the monument. This is the only place in the world where you'll find a pub and a chapel inside a stone circle. But there is more than simply stones to this World Heritage Site.
Avebury Manor is well worth a visit after viewing the stones. The lives and stories of the house's many owners are brought to life by the use of interior design, including the creation of many new pieces reflecting the skills of contemporary craftsmen. Visitors are encouraged to relax with a book in the armchairs, listen to the gramophone or even try out the beds.
Also worth a visit is the Alexander Keiller Museum. Housing archaeological treasures from Avebury. Nearby you'll also find a dovecote, shop and cafe.
Avebury has been a landscape of fields and farms since the Bronze Age.
Filmed using a Canon Legria HF-G25 (Vixia HF-G20)
Woodhenge in Wiltshire - World Heritage
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. Woodhenge was discovered by accident in the 1920s. Dark old pole holes pointed to prehistoric wooden poles that had stood here. These spots are now marked with stone markers.
A skeleton from the Stone Age was also found here. It was of a three-year-old child whose skull had been smashed. A burial pit was also found, a memorial stone now lies here.
In the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury you can learn more about the story of the world heritage site, its monuments, and the people associated with it.
Woodhenge maakt deel uit van de werelderfgoedinschrijving Stonehenge, Avebury en bijbehorende plaatsen.
In the tv-series Heritage Sites of the World we visit 26 locations. Each location featured is considered to be unique of universal value for all mankind. Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, each one is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.
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Exploring Avebury Stone Circle And Museum (Strange Ritual)
Exploring Avebury Stone Circle and museum. I also take a look around the local church and come across a group doing a strange ritual.
Avebury Neolithic Henge Monument Wiltshire
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. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the 3rd millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument was a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually extended into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project which reconstructed much of the monument.
Avebury is owned and managed by the National Trust, a charitable organisation who keep it open to the public. It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.
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11. Örgryte gamla kyrkogård – Alexander & James Keiller
Ljudguide Örgryte gamla kyrkogård.
ALEXANDER KEILLER (1804-1874) –
industri- och affärsman, lade grunden till Götaverken
född den 1 juli 1804 i Dundee, Skottland
död den 27 mars 1874 i Göteborg
JAMES (JEMMY) KEILLER (1867-1962) – ingenjör och politiker
född den 26 december 1867 i Göteborg
död 1962 i Släp, Kungsbacka
Avebury, National Trust
The National Trust wanted to give visitors an insight into the personality of Alexander Keiller, one of Britain's first archaeologists and the man who surveyed Avebury and then took up the challenge of re-standing the stones in the 1920s. The archives at Avebury inspired three distinct script and visual methods to show the passions of this man.
Crop Circle at Milk Hill, Wiltshire, 01.08.2013, England.
Four clips of video footage of the crop circle that appeared at Milk Hill on the 1st August, 2013 in wheat crop. This footage is available to licence. For more details contact Steve Alexander on - temporarytemples@sky.com. More details on licensing of still images for publication, etc can be found on our website at - temporarytemples.co.uk
Live From The Henge Shop in Avebury, UK
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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.
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Örgryte gamla kyrkogård: Alexander Keiller
Keiller Christmas
Girls singing carols
Avebury Manor
A Visual Tour around the renovated Elizabethan House of AVEBURY MANOR, owned and maintained by THE NATIONAL TRUST.
Filmed and Edited by Marq English
Music by Kevin Macleod
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Collector of Surrealism | Gabrielle Keiller
'Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous' was an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Art in 2016, which brought together some of the finest works of Surrealism from four legendary collections, those of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch.
Curator and former director at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Richard Calvocoressi discusses Gabrielle Keiller’s collection, her relationship with Eduardo Paolozzi and her life before collecting.
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Ideation
IDEATION: Duncan of Jordanstone summer project
Features footage from Arundel museum commissioned instillation, 50th birthday celebrations, the Weststeyn wedding, Tigers Jaw and Menzingers Edinburgh gig and behind the scenes of Copper Lungs' Believe
Directed, written, shot and edited by Adam Morrow.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Wiltshire
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Wiltshire. Exterior of the museum with view across Cathedral Close to Salisbury Cathedral.
At the Center of Avebury Stone Circle
The well in the middle of Avebury Stone Circle.
Neo-Druidism | Wikipedia audio article
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Druidry, sometimes termed Druidism, is a modern spiritual or religious movement that generally promotes harmony, connection, and reverence for the natural world. This commonly is extended to include respect for all beings, including the environment itself. Many forms of modern Druidry are modern Pagan religions, although most of the earliest modern Druids identified as Christians. Originating in Britain during the 18th century, Druidry was originally a cultural movement, only gaining religious or spiritual connotations in the 19th century.
The core principle of Druidry is respect and veneration of nature, and as such it often involves participation in the environmental movement. Another prominent belief among modern Druids is the veneration of ancestors, particularly those who belonged to prehistoric societies.
Arising from the 18th century Romanticist movement in Britain, which glorified the ancient Celtic peoples of the Iron Age, the early neo-Druids aimed to imitate the Iron Age priests who were also known as druids. At the time, little accurate information was known about these ancient priests, and the modern Druidic movement has no direct connection to them, despite contrary claims made by some modern Druids.In the late 18th century, modern Druids developed fraternal organizations modeled on Freemasonry that employed the romantic figure of the British Druids and Bards as symbols of indigenous British spirituality. Some of these groups were purely fraternal and cultural, creating traditions from the national imagination of Britain. Others, in the early 20th century, merged with contemporary movements such as the physical culture movement and naturism. Since the 1980s, some modern druid groups have adopted similar methodologies to those of Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism in an effort to create a more historically accurate practice. However, there is still controversy over how much resemblance modern Druidism may or may not have to the Iron Age druids.