Avebury is an ancient monument near Stonehenge. It’s much larger, and, at first glance, less dramatic.
The circular trench is over a thousand feet long, with a diameter of 350′. Erosion has filled in the ditch. Originally, it was thirty to forty feet deeper than the ground on the inside of the circle. Excavations show that it had very steep sides. The bottom was so perfectly flat that water levels must have been used when carefully chiselling and polishing it out of the underlying chalk.
The original sides were close to perpendicular. The sides must have been lined with planks or logs to keep from being filled in during the thousands of years that the structure was in active use.
Questions: Was the remarkably deep trench a kind of “reverse pyramid”, with tunnel(s) protruding from one or more points at the bottom of the trench to locations inside or outside the trench.
How was water removed from the bottom of the ditch to keep it from being a moat? During excavations, it was discovered that there were no water stains on the underlying chalk, either on the walls or on the flat bottom.
Did a huge cover keep water from accumulating? Were pumps used to remove water? The more Avebury is explored, the more mystifying it becomes.
Catholic Fundamentalists believe that the children of Ham built all the stone and earth temples throughout Europe. They were later replaced by the sons and daughters of Shem.
