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World Heritage, excavated henges

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)

Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic

Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Durrington Walls and Woodhenge

Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Wessex

Massive Neolithic henge enclosure (c. 2600 BCE), 500 m diameter, largest in Britain, with southern timber circle and dense Late Neolithic settlement (1000+ pits, houses).

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Standing Stones of Stenness

Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian

Four surviving uprights of oval henge circle originally 12 stones up to 5.7 m tall on promontory between lochs. One of earliest henges in Britain (c.3100 BCE).