What is unusual about Avebury village?

It sits partly inside the stone circle

What is Silbury Hill?

Prehistoric Europe's largest man-made mound

Avebury Quiz: Britain's Largest Stone Circle and Silbury Hill

This Avebury quiz walks among the giant standing stones of Wiltshire's Neolithic landscape. Play 10 interactive questions on the henge's huge ditch and bank, the outer circle of about 100 stones, the village inside, West Kennet Avenue, Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, stones buried in the Middle Ages, Alexander Keiller and UNESCO status.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

County
Which English county is Avebury in?
Record
What record does Avebury hold?
Age
Roughly when was Avebury built?
Village
What is unusual about Avebury village?
Henge
What surrounds the stones?
Avenue
Which line of paired stones leads away from Avebury?
Hill
What is Silbury Hill?
Barrow
What is West Kennet Long Barrow?
Medieval
What happened to many stones in the Middle Ages?
Keiller
Who restored many stones in the 1930s?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which English county is Avebury in?
Answer: Wiltshire
Stonehenge is in the same county.
Q2: What record does Avebury hold?
Answer: Largest stone circle in Britain
Its outer circle is huge.
Q3: Roughly when was Avebury built?
Answer: Around 2600 BC
It is Neolithic.
Q4: What is unusual about Avebury village?
Answer: It sits partly inside the stone circle
A road runs through the henge.
Q5: What surrounds the stones?
Answer: A great ditch and bank
The ditch was dug with antler picks.
Q6: Which line of paired stones leads away from Avebury?
Answer: West Kennet Avenue
It heads toward another monument.
Q7: What is Silbury Hill?
Answer: Prehistoric Europe's largest man-made mound
Its purpose remains a mystery.
Q8: What is West Kennet Long Barrow?
Answer: A Neolithic tomb
Visitors can walk inside.
Q9: What happened to many stones in the Middle Ages?
Answer: They were toppled and buried
Some were broken for building.
Q10: Who restored many stones in the 1930s?
Answer: Alexander Keiller
He was heir to a marmalade fortune.

Giant Stones, Ditches and a Mysterious Mound

Avebury in Wiltshire holds the largest stone circle in Britain, built around 2600 BC. A huge ditch and bank, dug with antler picks, surround an outer circle of about 100 stones, which once enclosed two smaller circles. Unusually, part of a village sits inside the henge, with a road running through it.

The monument is part of a wider ritual landscape. West Kennet Avenue, a line of paired stones, leads southeast, and West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb visitors can enter. Silbury Hill is the largest man-made mound in prehistoric Europe, and its purpose remains a mystery.

In the Middle Ages, many stones were toppled and buried, perhaps from religious fears, and others were broken for building. In the 1930s Alexander Keiller, heir to a marmalade fortune, dug up and re-erected many stones. With Stonehenge, Avebury became a World Heritage Site in 1986.

What This Quiz Teaches

History fans will enjoy these questions.

How large the circle is
When it was built
What surrounds it
Which monuments are nearby
Who restored it

Did You Know?

Concrete markers show where missing stones once stood.
Visitors can touch the Avebury stones, unlike at Stonehenge.
A skeleton was found beneath one fallen stone.
The Alexander Keiller Museum displays finds.
Sheep often graze among the stones.