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Avebury , village, Wiltshire, S central England. The village, with a medieval church and Elizabethan manor house, lies within Avebury Circle, a Neolithic circular group of upright stones that is older and larger than Stonehenge but not so well preserved. The village and the circle have belonged to the nation since 1943 and are administered by the National Trust. To the south of Avebury is the similarly ancient Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, 130 ft (39.6 m) high and covering more than 5 acres (2 hectares) at its base.

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Avebury. Largest prehistoric monument in Britain, in north Wiltshire, 6 miles W of Marlborough. The earthworks with standing stones date from pre-Celtic times, c.4000–3000BC.

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See Aubrey Burl , Prehistoric Avebury (New Haven, Conn., 1979);
Michael Dames , The Avebury Cycle (London, 1980).

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