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    Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One...
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    Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km)...
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    Baron Avebury, of Avebury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created 22 January 1900 for the banker,...
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    Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (29 September 1928 – 14 February 2016), was an English politician and human rights campaigner. He served as the...
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  • Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated...
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    John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal...
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  • 51°25′43″N 01°51′33″W / 51.42861°N 1.85917°W / 51.42861; -1.85917 Avebury Priory was an alien house of Benedictine monks in Wiltshire, England, between...
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    The barber surgeon of Avebury is a skeleton discovered in 1938 at Avebury henge monument in Wiltshire, England. The body was found underneath a buried...
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    in Évora, Portugal Arkaim – Ancient settlement of the Sintashta culture Avebury – Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England Cahokia – Archaeological...
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    prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World...
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    25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary. Excavations by Stuart Piggott and Alexander Keiller...
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    Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in...
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    businessman and philanthropist. He worked on an extensive prehistoric site at Avebury in Wiltshire, England, and helped ensure its preservation. Keiller was...
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    English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres (8.5 ha)...
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    Forest is a national park. Salisbury Plain is noted for the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles, which together are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and other...
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    Stonehenge used these stones for the Heel Stone and sarsen circle uprights. Avebury and many other megalithic monuments in southern England are also built...
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    of standing stones, at grid reference SU089693, close to Beckhampton in Avebury parish, in the English county of Wiltshire. Two stones are visible, known...
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    Ridgeway National Trail follows the ancient Ridgeway from Overton Hill, near Avebury, to Streatley, then follows footpaths and parts of the ancient Icknield...
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    the Manor Reborn alongside Penelope Keith, covering the refurbishment of Avebury Manor in Wiltshire for the National Trust. In 2014, he began hosting I...
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    Windmill Hill Museum Avebury Manor Avebury stone circle Longstones/ Beckhampton Avenue Kennet Avenue Silbury Hill West Kennet Long Barrow The Sanctuary...
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  • Jonathan Lubbock, 5th Baron Avebury (born 15 June 1954), is a British hereditary peer. He is the first son of the 4th Lord Avebury and Kina-Maria O'Kelly....
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    curving prehistoric avenue of stones that ran broadly south west from Avebury towards The Longstones at Beckhampton in the English county of Wiltshire...
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  • South West of England, including Arbor Low, Glastonbury Lake Village, Avebury, and Windmill Hill. Gray was born in 1872 in Lichfield. In 1888 he started...
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    describe these structures. The three largest stone circles in Britain (Avebury, the Great Circle at Stanton Drew stone circles, and the Ring of Brodgar)...
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    is unknown. Examples include: The Longstones in Wiltshire; The cove at Avebury Henge in Wiltshire; The cove at Stanton Drew in Somerset and The cove at...
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    time that major Neolithic monuments such as Stonehenge (phase III) and Avebury were constructed. By heating together tin and copper, which were in abundance...
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  • Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913), English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (1858–1929), English...
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    Neopagan handfasting ceremony at Avebury (Beltane 2005)...
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  • John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury (13 May 1915 – 21 June 1971), was an English hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords. He was the son of Harold...
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    (1993). Culture and Capitalism in Contemporary Ireland. Hampshire, UK: Avebury Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-85628-362-5. Jacobsen, John (1994). Chasing Progress...
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