Avebury Stone Circle Postcard Wiltshire Mardon & Hall Ltd

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Avebury Stone Circle Postcard Wiltshire Mardon & Hall Ltd

A rare Ministry-commissioned postcard showing Avebury’s south-west sector, this tranquil mid-century view captures one of Britain’s most profound prehistoric landscapes in enduring clarity.

Measurements: approx. 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 inches
Dates: not available
Condition: Light wear consistent with age. Please check our images.
Internal notes: QC passed

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In the green heart of Wiltshire, Avebury stretches wide across the landscape — a Neolithic circle like no other, where massive sarsens loom amid grazing fields and quiet hedgerows. This peaceful postcard offers a south-west perspective, where scattered megaliths appear like sentinels, both timeless and silent. The road slicing through the circle underscores how past and present coexist in this ancient English village.

Published by Mardon, Son & Hall, Ltd., this postcard was produced for the Ministry of Public Building and Works, with image rights credited to G. Douglas Bolton. Its composition, colouration, and typography suggest a likely printing date in the 1950s–60s, part of a government-issued heritage documentation series. The reverse is clean, captioned as “P.3 Avebury, Wiltshire,” and printed in England — offering institutional provenance rarely found in commercial tourist cards.

To collect such a piece is to hold a quiet relic of Britain’s archaeological awakening — a period when sites like Avebury were being photographed, mapped, and made accessible with new reverence. This card offers a moment of reflection and stewardship — an image of stone and silence waiting to be preserved again.

Categories:
archaeology, ephemera, postcards, religion, wiltshire

Tags:
avebury, bolton, henge, mardon, megalithic, neolithic, postcard, wiltshire

Focus keyword:
avebury stone circle postcard

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avebury, wiltshire heritage, neolithic monuments, british archaeology postcards, stone circle ephemera

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