Extending the Stonehenge Avenue alignment

by Simon at 12:31 29/08/06 (Blogs::Simon)

If you project the Avenue alignment beyond Sidbury Hill, it passes directly through the intersection of a number of footpaths and an earthwork with Chute Causeway at a place called Scot's Poor on the western side of Haydown Hill.

This looked interesting enough to warrant a visit to the location, especially since James had mentioned that there were good views over the countryside to be had from this part of the world.

I certainly wasn't prepared for the wonderful appropriateness of what I found there though...

Sunflowers on the Avenue alignment!

In a bizarre coincidence (ha!) I found that along the edge of the byway that follows the Avenue alignment for the last half mile up to the intersection at Scot's Poor someone has cultivated a wide strip of sunflowers at the edge of a field of wheat.

Sunflower cultivation strip

Here's a map:

Scot's Poor location map

--
simon

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	(49 K)	100_5479 sunflowers.jpg	Sunflower strip along the alignment
	(66 K)	Scot's Poor map.jpg	Scot's Poor location map
	(57 K)	100_5483 sunflowers closeup.jpg	Sunflowers!

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