Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
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How it came to be
In Wiltshire, southern England, people built tombs, earthworks and stone circles over some 2,000 years from about 3700 BC. At Stonehenge a circular bank and ditch were dug around 3100 BC, and the great sarsen circle was raised between 2600 and 2400 BC.
A 2020 study traced 50 of the 52 surviving sarsens to West Woods, about 26 km to the north. The bluestones came some 240 km from the Preseli Hills in Wales, and a 2024 study matched the Altar Stone to northeast Scotland, about 690 km away.
To the north, Avebury holds Britain's largest stone circle, about 330 m across, and nearby Silbury Hill is a 39.5 m mound built around 2400 BC. Many Avebury stones were toppled or broken up from the 14th century on, and Alexander Keiller dug them out and re-erected them in the 1930s.
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