Part of Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire

Part of Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.

Dateable to the Neolithic period, around 2500 BCE, the Avebury Stone Circle is one of Europe's largest megalithic monuments and is thought to have had ceremonial or astronomical significance. It is associated with rituals, ancestor worship, and possibly linked to the broader ritual landscape of Stonehenge and other nearby sites.