Books on Avebury

There are a vast number of books written on and about Avebury and its magnificant landscape - we have started to collate some of our favourites

Avebury - The biography of a landscape - Joshua Pollard & Andrew Reynolds

This in depth book encapsulates research and fieldwork across ten years. Covering Avebury and its landscapes prehistory, through Roman occupation, Anglo-saxon and Medieval periods

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Avebury without the Stones: a Social History c.1550-1800 - Stuart Raymond

In Avebury the prehistoric stone circle, together with the manor house, receive most of the attention. But what about the history of the ordinary people of the parish? Their story is just as interesting, but is rarely mentioned and little studied. This book sets out to tell their stories: the story of the local gentry and yeomen, the schoolmasters, the carpenters, the masons, the agricultural labourers, the poor. It paints a lively picture of Avebury in the early modern period - its government, its landowners and tenants, its agriculture, its occupations, its living conditions, its religion. It demonstrates that there is much more to Avebury than just its archaeology

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