Prehistoric Britain
Avebury in Wiltshire
Neolithic stone circle, Wiltshire, England.
The late-Neolithic outer stone circle at Avebury is the largest of its kind in England.
Prehistoric stone circle at Avebury, Wiltshire, England.
'The stones are magnificent!' exclaimed Miranda. 'It must have taken hundreds of people to transport them all and put them into place! And it must have taken them years to dig out the huge ditch that surrounds all these megaliths.'
Description and discussion of the Avebury stone circles in relation to surrounding late Neolithic and early Bronze Age monuments in Wiltshire, England, in: Pryor, Francis, 2003. Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans. HarperCollinsPublishers. Chapter Nine: The Age of Stonehenge (the Final Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age: 2500–1800 BC), pp 229–69.
