which runs Avebury, said it would not allow camping near the stones or open any of its public facilities there to try to deter visitors. In Somerset, Avon and Somerset Police have also urged ...

Stonehenge was constructed roughly 5,000 years ago and its stones frame the summer sunrise and the winter sunset. For those ...

One Avebury expert says: 'Keiller did a pretty good job actually. The stones are pretty much in the right places, although one might be upside down.' Mike Pitts - broadcaster, author and a leading ...

Organised by Threshold Sports, Race to the Stones sees competitors run together along the ancient Ridgeway, racing towards the 5000-year-old Avebury Standing Stones. You can select either the 50k ...

An arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire has been discovered. A map of Avebury drawn up by William Stukely in the 1720s showed that many of ...

THE 5,000 year-old mystery surrounding Britain's largest stone circle is about to be revealed. The Avebury henge, older and larger than Stonehenge, is made up of 100 huge standing rocks dated back ...

Archaeologists from the universities of Leicester and Southampton have found a striking and apparently unique square monument beneath the world-famous Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire.

But it wasn’t until the 17th century that Avebury Henge truly entered the historical record. This is partly due to scale. Yes, the presence of upturned sarsen stones was conspicuous, but it’s ...

Hundreds of people have arrived at the Avebury stones to celebrate the summer solstice, sparking a police warning. The arrival of about 300 vehicles led to Wiltshire Police closing part of the ...