Avebury

Avebury is one of the seven major systems in Moledom.
== Landscape ==
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Avebury is a henge, containing three stone circles. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, eventually extending into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, local people destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley, however, took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project which reconstructed much of the monument.
Avebury is owned and managed by the National Trust. It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.
== Notable Events ==
* Murrain, a toxic disease which turns a mole blind and mad toward their deathDuncton Quest, pg. 668
* Spurling was born, with Quail, a season later.
* Peach and her siblings were born, and Quail had killed the two aside from Peach.
* Quail meets a Newborn missionary.
== Notable Residence ==
=== Natives ===
* Arnold
* Avens
* Mistle
* Peach
* Quail
* Spurling
* Violet
* Warren
=== Immigrants ===
* Sapient
== Gallery ==
1024px-Avebury_(South_Inner_Circle),_Wiltshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg|Avebury's South Inner Circle
image-408.jpg|A Map of Avebury
Avebury_aerial.jpg|Avebury from above
== References ==
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