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World Heritage site in Wiltshire, England
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
is a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site
(WHS) in
Wiltshire
, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated by about 24 kilometres (15 mi), rather than a specific monument or building. The sites were inscribed as co-listings in 1986. Some large and well known monuments within the WHS are listed below, but the area also has an exceptionally high density of small-scale archaeological sites, particularly from the prehistoric period. More than 700 individual archaeological features have been identified. There are 160 separate
scheduled monuments
, covering 415 items or features.
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Stonehenge and associated monuments
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Boundary and key sites for the Stonehenge section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site
The Stonehenge area of the WHS is in south Wiltshire. It covers an area of 26 square km and is centred on the prehistoric monument of
Stonehenge
. Ownership is shared between
English Heritage
, the
National Trust
, the
Ministry of Defence
, the
RSPB
,
Wiltshire Council
, and private individuals and farmers.
Monuments in the Stonehenge WHS
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Avebury and associated monuments
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Boundary and key sites for the Avebury section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site
The Avebury area of the WHS covers an area of 22.5 km
2
and is centred on the prehistoric
Avebury Henge
, about 17 miles (27 km) north of Stonehenge.
Monuments in the Avebury WHS
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Museum and archive collections
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The main museums are the
Alexander Keiler Museum
at Avebury,
Salisbury Museum
, and
Wiltshire Museum
in
Devizes
.
Other museums with material from Stonehenge and Avebury include the
British Museum
,
National Museum of Wales
,
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
and the
Ashmolean Museum
. Other archives include the
Historic England Archive
in Swindon, the
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
in Chippenham, and the
Bodleian Library
at Oxford.
See also
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References
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