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| Right next to Silbury hill we find Avebury stone circle
The largest Sarsen stone at Avebury is called the Swindon stone..... here it is |
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| It weighs over 60 tonnes. That�s about the same weight as the heaviest block in the great pyramid at Giza. The castle at Uffington had very similar sarsen stones around its parapet and another sarsen stone was found on white horse hill itself.
It is called the blowing stone and its quite aptly named because when it was on the hillside the wind would create an acoustic effect likened to a calf�s bellow |
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| Of course no conversation about similarities and stone circles can be complete without mentioning the most famous stone circle of them all.
It similarly dates from 3100bce and has sarsen stones in its construction and it�s also in Wiltshire about 20 miles from Silbury. It�s Stonehenge. |
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