TheAveburyWorldHeritageSiteis a uniquecomplexofprehistoricmonuments. Todaywe'regoingtobevisitingsomeofthelesser-knownprehistoricmonumentsintheAveburylandscape.
Mostofthesemonumentsareaccessibleandyoucanwalkbetweenthem, andthatgivesyou a reallygoodsenseofthewholelandscapeandhowthesemonumentsareconnectedtogetherandthedifferentfascinatingstoriesthateachmonumenthastotell.
AndAlthoughtheyfoundout a lotaboutthedifferentphasesofthemoundandhowithadbeenconstructed, thereisnocentralburial: it's not a burialmound; it's a moundbuiltforotherpurposes.
塚の中に何があるのかを知るために、トンネルを掘っていました。を発見したものの墳丘のさまざまな段階とその構築方法について、多くのことを知ることができます。 no central burial: it's not a burial mound.他の目的のために作られたマウンドなのです。
SilburyHillisoneofthefinalmonumentstobebuiltinthislandscapeintheNeolithicperiod, andit's builtinthisclusterofalreadyexistingmonuments, butit's locatedin a reallyinterestingplace:
It's locatedjustatthepointjustwheretheRiverKennetspringsout, andwethinkthatthemoundwasbuiltattheheadoftheriverbecausethiswas a reallyimportantandperhapssacredplace.
It's a longbarrowwhichis a funerarymonument, it's wherepeopleburiedtheirdeadandit's beenfullyexcavatedwhichmeansthatit's fullyrestoredandyoucangoinsideitandseethechamberstoday.
Soit's a reallyimportantsiteforusunderstandingearlyNeolithiclifeandforalsounderstandinghowarchaeologicalideashavechangedoverthe 20thcentury.
初期の新石器時代の生活を理解する上でとても重要な遺跡であると同時に
Tofullyunderstandthemonument, soit's a goodideatogoandvisittheAlexanderKeillerMuseuminthemiddleofAveburywheretheyhavequite a lotofthefindsfromthissiteondisplayincludingtheWindmillHillpottery.
Sothey'realmostspacesthatpeoplewerecomingintoandprocessingintothecentreofthemonumentanditwouldhavebeenquite a specialinnersanctuaryfromthewiderlandscape.
Theavenueismadeupoftwoparallelrowsofstones, whichleadoffdownintothevalleybehindme, andskirtaroundWadenHilandapproachthehenge, about a mileand a halfaway.
Allofthesiteswe'veexploredtodayarefreeandpubliclyaccessible, soit's worthspending a bitoftimeandcomingoutandexploringsomeofthelesserknownprehistoricmonumentsintheAveburyWorldHeritagesite.
TheAveburyWorldHeritageSiteis a uniquecomplexofprehistoricmonuments. Todaywe'regoingtobevisitingsomeofthelesser-knownprehistoricmonumentsintheAveburylandscape.