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3000BCc. 3000–1500 BC · Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

Stonehenge

The standing stones and lintels of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain
Photo: Sumit Surai. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Farmers on Salisbury Plain dug a circular ditch around 3000 BC, then raised giant sarsens and bluestones brought from the Preseli Hills in Wales, aligning the monument on the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. Surrounded by burial mounds, avenues and the larger stone circle at Avebury, it sits at the centre of a ritual landscape archaeologists are still mapping.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Stonehenge and visitor centreThe stone circle, the Avenue and reconstructed Neolithic houses.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Avebury hengeA village inside a huge stone circle you can walk among.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Durrington WallsEarthworks of the henge where the builders probably gathered and feasted.Map ↗

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