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Friday 29 - Sunday 31 August 2008 (3 Days)
Cost of tour: £ 295
(sgl supp £ 30)
Price without flights: TBC
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Meet in the evening for an introductory lecture and dinner together in Sarum College in the beautiful Cathedral Close.
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Stonehenge for an early (7.30am) visit inside the stone circle before the public arrives. This will be followed by a walk (2 hours) through the wider religious landscape - the cursus, King Barrows and Stonehenge Avenue. Short drive to the huge henge at Durrington Walls, site of exciting recent excavations, before return to Salisbury Museum for a visit to the Stonehenge and Prehistory Galleries. Private demonstration of flint-knapping in the gardens. Disperse about 5pm.
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By coach to Avebury for a full exploration of the huge Neolithic henge, so large that part of the village lies within it. Morning walk around the henge and along the ceremonial Avenue, approaching the great stone circle as one would have done in prehistoric times. Visit Alexander Keiller Museum.
Afternoon circular walk (2 hours) past Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in Europe, to the chambered tomb at West Kennet; over to the Sanctuary, along the Ridgeway and return to Avebury from the East. Walking in our ancestors’ footsteps helps us try to understand their motives and methods. Disperse in Salisbury about 5.30pm.
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