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The Sanctuary Circle

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The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
The Sanctuary Circle
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Avebury SN8 4EY, England

The Sanctuary is a prehistoric site on Overton Hill located around 5 miles west of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire. Four concentric rings of post holes, and two outer rings of standing stones were first noted in 1648, and were drawn by William Stukeley in 1723, shortly before it was largely destroyed by a local farmer. Excavation in 1930 re-identified the location of the 58 stone sockets and 62 post-holes, the locations of which are now marked with concrete blocks.It is part of a wider Neolithic landscape which includes the nearby sites of Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow and Avebury, to which The Sanctuary was linked by the 25m wide and 2.5 km long Kennet Avenue. It also lies close to the route of the prehistoric Ridgeway and near several Bronze Age barrows. It lies within the area of the Avebury section of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site.
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