High Street
Avebury
Malborough
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| Tel: | | 01672 539250 | | Fax: | | 01672 539494 |
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Open Daily 10am-6pm from Apr till Nov, then 4.30pm till Apr
Visited free on NT open day - March 2010 - Entry fee £4.20
see website for details
First visit since 1985 but since 2001 includes the Grade I listed Great Barn, previously home to the Wiltshire Folk Life Society, now a museum/nature reserve home to local bats colonies.
The Stables, Alexander Keiller's private museum was presented to the Ministry of Works in 1966 by Keiller's widow. On display are artefacts representing Neolithic daily life. These include flint axes, beakers, life sized figures and the skeletons of primitive piglets, goats, and a small working dog. Perhaps most poignant is the infant girl, lying just as she was found, on a bed of compacted chalk from the ditch of Windmill Hill.
The Great Barn contains interactive multi-media displays, and the latest interpretative site models. The dimly lit interior, due to the wildlife, gives an eerie feel next to Keiller's 1914 sizaire berwick car and AV show of his home movies |
Posted by Chance
29th April 2010ce
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