Avebury
Facts
28 propertiesDesignation
- Instance of
- archaeological site, stone circle, henge
- Heritage designation
- scheduled monument (1882–present)
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.429°, -1.854°
Period and style
- Significant event
- archaeological excavation
More facts +22
- Owned by
- English Heritage, National Trust
- Official website
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk, www.english-heritage.org.uk
- Located in
- Avebury
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 51.429°, -1.854°
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Otto's encyclopedia
- Different from
- Avebury
- Director of archaeological fieldwork
- Alexander Keiller (1937–1938), Stuart Piggott
- Has part(s)
- Stone 46, Stone 9, Stone 24, The Obelisk, The Cove, Avebury bank and ditch
- Has parts
- Stone 46, Stone 9, Stone 24, The Obelisk, The Cove, Avebury bank and ditch
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Image harvest run
- pdhero-20261109T032439Z
- Image last checked license
- CC BY 2.5
- Image unavailable reason
- no_pd_license
- Maintained by
- National Trust
- Native label
- Avebury
- OS grid reference
- SU1024769967
- Operator
- English Heritage, National Trust
- Significant person
- Isobel Smith, Alexander Keiller, William Stukeley, John Aubrey, Denis Grant King, William Edward Vincent Young, Harold St George Gray, Florence St George Gray, Stuart Piggott, Gabrielle Keiller, Dorothy Isabel Liddell
- Studied by
- Alexander Keiller
- Time period
- Neolithic
- VIAF cluster ID
- 137244800
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n83151872
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Avebury May 2005.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM project ID
- 5019
- Atlas Obscura place ID
- avebury
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 119496595
- Freebase ID
- /m/01zbyw
- GeoNames ID
- 8739717
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1099708
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 4939993
- IdRef ID
- 112575781
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- Krugosvet article (archived)
- istoriya/EVBERI.html
- Lex ID
- Avebury
- National Heritage List for England number
- 1015546
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007557392405171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3872661
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 8497688
- Pleiades ID
- 834766850
- TripAdvisor ID
- 198877
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Avebury
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- qb6vg443
- Yale LUX ID
- place/e646fdb7-8614-40f8-96b0-2843e5d3c425
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Significant person 3
Director of archaeological fieldwork 2
Operator 2
Owned by 2
Country 1
Described by source 1
Different from 1
Heritage designation 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Maintained by 1
Part of 1
Significant event 1
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Summary
Avebury is an archaeological site[1].
Body
Geography
Avebury's part of is recorded as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites[4].
Designation and Status
Recorded instance of include archaeological site[5], stone circle[6], and henge[7]. Avebury's heritage designation is recorded as scheduled monument[8].
History and Context
Owners include English Heritage[9], a charitable organization[10], in United Kingdom[11], founded in 2015[12], headquartered in Swindon[13] and National Trust[14], a national trust[15], in United Kingdom[16], founded in 1895[17], headquartered in Swindon[18].