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    Avebury is a large Neolithic stone circle monument located in Wiltshire, England containing three stone circles, including the largest stone circle in Europe. It was constructed around 2600 BCE and was most likely used for ritual ceremonies. The site was later abandoned and a village was built within it, with many stones destroyed over time before archaeological investigation began in the 20th century.

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    Avebury is a large Neolithic stone circle monument located in Wiltshire, England containing three stone circles, including the largest stone circle in Europe. It was constructed around 2600 BCE and was most likely used for ritual ceremonies. The site was later abandoned and a village was built within it, with many stones destroyed over time before archaeological investigation began in the 20th century.

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    Vikings (Norweigan and Danish: Vikinger; Swedish and Nynorsk: Vikingar; Icelandic: Víkingar), from Old Norse víkingr, were Germanic Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern and central Europe, as well as European Russia, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.[1][2] The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Norse military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Kievan Rus' and Sicily.[3] Facilitated by advanced seafaring skills, and characterised by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion and settlement, Viking (Norse) communities and polities were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, European Russia, the North Atlantic islands and as far as the north-eastern coast of North America. This period of expansion witnessed the wider dissemination of Norse culture, while simultaneously introducing strong foreign cultural influences into Scandinavia itself, with profound developmental implications in both directions. Popular, modern conceptions of the Vikings—the term frequently applied casually to their modern descendants and the inhabitants of modern Scandinavia—often strongly differ from the complex picture that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. A romanticized picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century; this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival.[4][5] Perceived views of the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the early 20th century. Current popular representations of the Vikings are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes, complicating modern appreciation of the Viking legacy.

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    Avebury

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    This article is about the prehistoric site. For the modern village and civil par
    ish containing it, see Avebury, Wiltshire.
    UNESCO World Heritage Site Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
    Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
    Avebury Henge and Village Avebury (South Inner Circle), Wiltshire, UK - Diliff.j
    pg
    Type
    Cultural
    Criteria
    i, ii, iii
    Reference
    373
    UNESCO region Europe and North America
    Inscription history
    Inscription
    1986 (10th Session)
    Avebury is located in Wiltshire
    Avebury
    Map of Wiltshire showing the location of Avebury
    Avebury (/'e?vbri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles
    , around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the b
    est known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest stone circle in
    Europe. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to c
    ontemporary Pagans.
    Constructed around 2600 BCE,[1] during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the mo
    nument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone cir
    cle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the mon
    ument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it
    was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument w
    as a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments n
    earby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
    By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of
    human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Middle
    Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually ex
    tended into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed
    many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical r
    easons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an intere
    st in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its
    destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led prim
    arily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project of reconstructing much of the
    monument.
    Avebury is owned and managed by the National Trust, a charitable organisation wh
    o keep it open to the public.[2] It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monu
    ment,[3] as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as
    a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Aveb
    ury and Associated Sites.[4]

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