12. The World’s Largest Stone Circle – Avebury, Wiltshire
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast Neil’s journey continues across Wiltshire’s powerful ritual landscape, taking us to the largest stone circle in the world.
Avebury is a colossal monument built over centuries by our Neolithic ancestors. It consists of three stone circles and at its heart is the cove stone weighing nearly 100 tons. This complex and mysterious monument chart’s the seasons, marks time and once brought our ancestors together. Awed by its sheer scale and intent Neil testifies to the fact that, thousands of years ago, this surely was a place that meant so much.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. You're looking down at something that is quite beautiful. It's very obvious. When you see it from above, it jumps out at you. Because on the ground it's so big you can't it kind of |
| 0:35.3 | looks like random stones but when you get above it it suddenly all makes sense you |
| 0:41.8 | can see the vision. This week's podcast takes us across a powerful |
| 0:49.8 | ritual landscape to the world's largest stone circle. |
| 0:55.0 | Tons of chalk dug with antler picks and mussel, |
| 1:00.0 | the cove stone weighing nearly 100 tons at its heart. |
| 1:06.0 | Circles within circles and circles in time, charting the seasons and bringing people together to a place that's now clouded, cloaked in wonder and mystery, |
| 1:19.0 | but that once meant so much. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. |
| 1:32.8 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 1:37.0 | In the last podcast, |
| 1:45.0 | most famous monuments in the world, the magical stone henge. |
| 1:51.0 | Where's the next stop on our journey? Well just next door to Stonehenge is an extraordinary place that always sets my mind racing whenever I visit. It's massive in scale and also in intent. It's a true |
| 2:07.4 | Neolithic marvel. It's the Avery stone circles. to |
| 2:15.6 | a everybody stone circles. To describe it as a circle of stones is to diminish it. It's so much more |
| 2:21.9 | than that. It's like with so much of the things that we think about that are stone age in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic even the Paleolithic. |
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