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7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 2400–2300 BCE · Late Neolithic Britons (Grooved Ware)
Europe's tallest prehistoric mound – 39-m artificial hill with unknown purpose.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Long barrow southeast of Avebury henge, 40 m, part of WHS barrow cemetery, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Unexcavated long barrow southeast of Silbury Hill, 100 m longest in Avebury group, landmark within WHS.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Hembury Ware
Type-site causewayed enclosure 2 km from Avebury — three interrupted ditch circuits enclosing 8.5 ha.