Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of a ring of standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons.The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). White Europeans, or the White British people, are a racial classification for the people belonging to various ethnic European ancestries. Ethnicity in the United Kingdom is formally recorded at a national level at each census. Avebury henge and stone circles are managed by The National Trust on behalf of English Heritage, and the two organisations share the cost of managing and maintaining the property.Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1RFOpen any reasonable time during daylight hoursAvebury henge and stone circles are one of the greatest marvels of prehistoric Britain. "The Vale of Pewsey is a relatively untouched archaeological treasure-chest under the shadow of one of the wonders of the world. Durrington Walls: The largest henge monument in Britain 20 05 2017 Immediately to the north of Woodhenge and spanning the A345 road is the largest henge monument in Britain – a massive banked and ditched enclosure over 400m across and nearly 1.5km in circumference. âWe tend to think of people during the Neolithic as somehow being at one with their environment, but they appear to have been just as bad as we are. John-Brooks is intrigued by a third possibility: With the dawn of the Bronze Age just over the horizon, this may be where people of the late Neolithic era made the first tentative attempts to smelt metal.Fields of barley surround the excavation at Wilsford Henge.
The Guardian has a good graphic showing the size of the "new" neolithic monument found at Stonehenge.It would be easier to see it from space. "Were the three monuments competing against each other? The skeleton, thought to be that of a teenager, was buried with an amber necklace around 4,000 years ago.The skeleton, apparently that of a young teenager about 5 feet tall, was unearthed just outside the main embankment of Marden Henge, in a smaller enclosure known as Wilsford Henge. It is situated on a small strip of land between the Lochs of Harray and Stenness and dates back to around 3,300BC. Part of a larger connected, ritual landscape. Stone monoliths found buried near Stonehenge could have been part of the largest Neolithic monument built in Britain, archaeologists believe. When you look around the henge today on a fine summer day, it appears to be nothing more than peaceful, undulating farmland.The sheer size of Marden Henge makes it hard to notice from the ground, even when youâre standing in the middle of it.But 4,500 years ago this was a bustling showpiece of Neolithic engineering, the biggest henge (or circular earthworks) in ancient Britainâten times the size of Stonehenge, a few miles to the south.âIt would be huge if that were the case,â she says.