Avebury
Avebury
This remarkable "shadow carving" is the same technique as is used at Stonehenge. The tender expression on the man's face leaves no doubt - these are lovers. This stone tells a story of these people. This is not primitive art. It's beautiful even though it's worn!
The man wears a headdress with gold in it. He has on a shirt and short waistcoat-type jacket, and a gold necklace or chain. The woman has on a crown with a piece coming low to the top of the nose - maybe feather plumes. Material from her headdress comes down under her chin.
I rather think this depicts a reunion of some sort. Another man's head with a moustache - an older man - probably a parent - came out beside them (looking right). This picture was a three-dimensional like the trilithons at Stonehenge. The other man is worked in with the other two, that's why he doesn't show now, but I can tell where he is. This was once in colour.
Man's head looking right, woman's head looking left. His hand rests on hers.