Do the 2 inner circles at Avebury have a connecting causeway or pathway? Cecilia (73)

Hi Cecilia, thank you for your question. As far as I’m aware there is no evidence for a causeway or pathway between the two inner stone circles at Avebury. That certainly doesn’t mean there wasn’t one, just that archaeologists haven’t found anything to support the idea yet. One of the problems is that the two inner circles are separated by the modern road. This means that evidence may have been lost and it is difficult to investigate an area that has so been so developed over the years.  

Avebury is a very complex site which archaeologists are still trying to fully understand. The site is made up of a huge circular bank and ditch with four entrances and inside this is the largest stone circle in Europe, which is thought to have had around 100 stones and is 330m wide. Inside this large circle are the two smaller circles and each of these also have features inside. The northern circle has three large stones known as The Cove (only two stones are still standing), and the southern circle had a single large stone known as The Obelisk. Recent research has also discovered an earlier square megalith located underneath the southern circle which is thought to be one of the earliest features on the site. You can find out more about it here.