Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, can lay claim to being the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of megaliths, and remain today one of the most iconic and potent symbols of European prehistory. The whole area has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO due to its rich complexes of well-preserved Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary monuments.
Designated 'Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites', there is an exceptional survival of prehistoric monuments and sites within the World Heritage Site including settlements, burial grounds, and large constructions of earth and stone. Each area contains a focal stone circle and henge and many other major monuments. At Stonehenge these include the Avenue, the Cursuses, Durrington Walls, Woodhenge, and the densest concentration of burial mounds in Britain. At Avebury, they include Windmill Hill, the West Kennet Long Barrow, the Sanctuary, Silbury Hill, the West Kennet and Beckhampton Avenues, the West Kennet Palisaded Enclosures, and important barrows.
