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Main stream archaeology suggests that the Avebury stones were first erected some 5500 years ago and that they were the centre piece of a landscape, peppered with sites and oddities from an era during which our ancestors sculpted their landscape with henges, burial mounds and spiral 'pyramids' such as Silbury Hill and the nearby Marlborough Mound. Two of the most enigmatic sites within the Avebury area are the partly restored West Kennet Long Barrow (aligned east/west) and the much less explored East Kennet Long Barrow (aligned north/south). Whilst you may access part of the interior of the West Kennet Long Barrow it's sibling mound at East Kennet remains covered in trees and is somewhat overgrown.

Avebury is the largest known stone circle in the World; from an archaeological and social perspective, it was constructed during the late Neolithic when the estimated population of the British Isles was less than 200,000. It seems extraordinary to consider that only around 10% of the sites these peoples built still exist today. (next page)