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statement that the avenue ‘‘ makes a mighty curve to the left” (i.e., 
the east, p. 31). This, in his “ Scenographic view” of the whole 
temple,is represented as a very gradual curve, which, if produced to 
an angle, would be a very obtuse one. Stukeley’s draught of this 
avenue from Abury to Kennet, in the sketch book before mentioned, 
is very like that given by Aubrey, and running in a straight line 
to “ Kennett Town,’ would require as complete a right angle as 
Aubrey’s to connect the avenue with the circles on Overton Hill. 
Stukeley alludes to Aubrey’s description of this avenue, which had 
been printed in Gibson’s Camden, and says of it, “he [Aubrey] did 
not see that ’tis but one avenue from Aubury to Overton Hill, 
having no apprehension of the double curve it makes.” It is, very 
possibly, a copy of Aubrey’s own sketch of this avenue, made by 
his friend, Edward Llwyd, to which Stukeley, at a subsequent page, 
refers, when he says, “ he did not discern the curve of it,’”’ but “ has 
drawn [it] as a straight line.’ An error, the reverse of that of 
Aubrey, is found in Crocker’s plan, in 1812, in which the bold 
curve of the avenue at Kennet is entirely overlooked, and its course 
represented as a very slight curve, entirely on the east side of the 
village, whereas it must have passed through its very centre. This 
is clear enough from Stukeley’s description, and is even now con- 
firmed by the large stone in the garden opposite the brewery, which 
was buried there by Mr. Butler, who, with reason, believed it to 
have formed part of the avenue, and who pointed out the situation 
of a second stone in a hedge-bottom a little farther to the west. The 
existence of these stones we may conclude was not known to Sir 
Richard Hoare, or Mr. Crocker.! 
1 With reference to these Kennet stones, which would, in great measure, 
determine the character of the angular curve made at this part of the avenue, 
I find the following among my Abury memoranda, The first is a communication 
from Mr. W. Cunnington : ‘‘ The late Mr. Butler, of Kennet, a good antiquary, 
and an early supporter of the ‘ Wiltshire Topographical Society,’ gave me, a 
few months before his death, in 1873, the following information relating to the 
Kennet Avenue. He remembered a stone which stood near Mr. Kemm’s house, 
at West Kennet. When the road was altered some years ago, as this stone was 
standing in the middle of the proposed route, it was thrown down, and buried 
under the road, where it, no doubt, still exists. Further on, where there are 
now two cottages, at the foot of Overton Hill, on the right-hand side of the road, 
