Avebury

Neolithic · United Kingdom

Field notes

civilizations

NeolithicMegalithic

types

Stone circle

built

2,850 BCE — 2,200 BCE

occupied

2,850 BCE — 1,800 BCE

country

United Kingdom

The site

Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England, encircling the village of the same name and containing three stone circles. Constructed over several centuries in the third millennium BCE, it holds the largest megalithic stone circle in the world within a great bank-and-ditch enclosure. Its original purpose is unknown, though archaeologists believe it served some form of ritual or ceremony, set amid a wider prehistoric landscape.

Nearby sites

~28 km

Stonehenge

~35 km

Roman Baths

~92 km

Maiden Castle

~209 km

Grime's Graves