In 1986 I set myself the task of solving the puzzle of the whereabouts of William Stukeley's other Avenue. Many archaeologists at that time thought it a figment of his fertile imagination, including Caroline Malone (then the curator of the Alexander Keiller museum).
	Stukeley's map of 1724 shows two fallen stones in the High street, going west towards the church. From my divining in the shop, I thought I detected the line on the opposite side of the High street from the fallen stones. This line was a favoured sleeping position for our cats. Detail of a Stukeley drawing c1723. The buildings at middle right are now the Henge Shop.
	A longtime (now dead) resident of Avebury, Len Bull, told me that his grandfather said that in Avebury Truslow, at the junction of Frog Lane, a large stone of the Avenue was incorporated into the bank.
	Armed with these clues, I spent days tracing the line of the Avenue and thanks to Robin Butler, had permission to divine in the Longstones field after harvest. It was an amazing experience tracing the curve in that field and finding that Adam and Eve - the Longstones - were on the same side of the Avenue. Also, I deduced that the Beckhampton Longbarrow, orientated to the midsummer sunrise, was actually within the Avenue stones.
	Michael Pitts, eminent archaeologist and Avebury resident, confirmed that Avenues often contained older monuments within - just as a Saxon church was often incorporated into a later perpendicular one. Crossing the Bath Road (A4), the path of the Avenue seemed to be heading for Fox's Covert where Stukeley thought it terminated and from whence, he said, one had a good view of Silbury Hill. My dowsing said otherwise for the path swung in a gentle curve right and headed for a copse of beech trees, called Knoll Down, astride what turned out to be the old coaching road to Bath.
	The Avenue terminated to the left of the far side of the trees in what I dowsed as a small circle - akin to that at the Sanctuary. From there one looks over the top centre of Silbury Hill directly at the Sanctuary, as one would with the sights of a rifle. Was Silbury Hill built up to accommodate this sightline?
	Confirmation of this rediscovery came in three ways. Hamish Millar, author with Paul Broadhurst of The Sun and The Serpent, divined the same path later. Also,one day, in winter, I stood on the road - the highest point at the centre of the Circle - exactly between the Cove and the Obelisk (the two centres of the inner circles). I looked west down the High Street and, as the trees had lost their leaves, saw the road pointing to the Knoll on the skyline. Thirdly, excavations in the Longstones field in 1999 and 2000 vindicated Stukeley's and my estimations. The archaeology team from Southampton University found many buried stones and stone holes. So elated was I by this information I gave the crew a box of wine. Rare occurrence indeed. The whole adventure was so strange and so fulfilling. Now I take groups from my course at Marlborough College Summer School - Divining Ancient Sites - on the same discovery.
	Brian Ashley  The Henge Shop, 2004.