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Marilyn Bridges

(Newark, New Jersey, 1948 - )

Round Barrows with Towers, Wiltshire, England

1985

Gelatin silver print

11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Ray Thomason

2009.323

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Wiltshire is a county in southwest England widely known as the location of both the Stonehenge and Avebury megalithic circles. The “round barrows” of the title refer to the practice of mounding earth over a burial site. The towers, by contrast, were built in the twentieth century.

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