A Bronze Age teenager was buried here two centuries after Neolithic people first raised this monument on Overton Hill, now marked only by concrete posts
Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Standing remainssubstantial fabric survives to stand in front of
On Overton Hill, concrete blocks and posts show the ground plan of a monument that no longer stands. Neolithic people built it in phases from about 2500 BC, first as rings of timber posts, then adding standing stones, and archaeologists aren’t sure whether the wood and stone stood together. The site sits at the end of West Kennet Avenue, the double line of stones that runs north to the henge at Avebury. Excavations in 1930 turned up worked flint, animal bone and broken pottery around the post-holes, along with the Bronze Age grave of a teenage boy, buried here about two centuries later with a small clay pot beside him. There’s nothing to climb or explore up close, just the pattern of posts and stoneholes laid out on the ground, free to see at any time, with the Ridgeway path passing by.
