Archaeologists in England have found a lost ``avenue'' of slabs near the Avebury stone circle . The large grey stones were discovered in a farmer's field, and may force archeologists to rethink the history of the Avebury stone circle site.

The Avebury stone circle dates back to 2000 B.C., and is one of the largest pre-Celtic henges in Britain. A ``henge'' is a stone enclosure surrounded by a bank and a ditch, with at least one ceremonial entrance. The Avebury site is made up more than 100 stones arranged in various circles.

There are two types of stones at the Avebury site. One type is long, thin and rectangular. The other is thick and round. Archaeologists think the site may have been important in ancient fertility rituals. They believe that the rectangular stones represented males, and the round stones represented females.

The circle is at the center of a number of prehistoric ceremonial sites, burial mounds, and processional avenues.

The most famous, Stonehenge, is about 30 miles south of Avebury.

In the 1720s William Stukeley suggested that southwest England's stone circles and earthworks were all interconnected. He believed Avebury and Stonehenge were central temples built by a mysterious group of people known as Druids.

In his book ``Abury, a Temple of the British Druids'', Stukeley suggested that there was a raised road or causeway linking the Avebury stone circle site with Beckhampton burial site.

Many archaeologists dismissed the causeway theory as guesswork. This new discovery supports Stukeley's theory that the Avebury stones did not stand alone, but were connected to other ceremonial sites.

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