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Avebury

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Dec 18, 2020 05:09 AM — History

tags: megalithic, extant remains, UWHS

Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument comprised of three stone circles dating to the third millennium BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/834766850

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.4279192, -1.8531245

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Avebury (3000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Avebury Stones (English, modern)

Avebury makes connections with:

None

Avebury receives connections from:

None

Place type:
monument

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Avebury: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/834766850> [accessed: 20 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/834766850 |title=Places: 834766850 (Avebury) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 20, 2024 3:10 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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