amesbury monolith

razorback | 01:51 Sat 24th Sep 2005 | History

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who moved an amesbury monolith and replanted it upside down

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Rabelais

The Amesbury would be Stonehenge, which I don't think anybody has planted upside down. If you mean the Avebury stone the it was a woman called Maud Cunnington. Maud Cunnington came to Avebury in 1911 and righted, among other stones, a stone in West Kennet Avenue which was resting on its side.
Another local stone restorer called Sir Alexander Keiller who disliked her intensely spread the charge of the stone being righted upside down.

As it turns out later work suggest that Maud may have been right in the first place.

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thanks muchly i think the quiz i`m doing at the moment has a lot of errors in it and it is probably avebury as i live not far from amesbury

Tatty Rollox

Here's an aerial view of the Avebury Stone Circle, and here's a view from the ground.