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guardianship. It is managed by the National Trust on behalf of English Heritage, and the two organisations share the cost of managing and maintaining the property.
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righted some of the stones during her work there in the early 20th century. Keiller restored the northern third of the avenue in 1934–1935.
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burials beneath some of them. Many stones have fallen or are missing, however. A second avenue, called
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of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the
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had lined the avenue, dated to around 2200 BC from finds of
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Location
Wiltshire
Avebury Section
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Criteria
373bis-002
Session
Coordinates
51°25′23″N 1°50′53″W / 51.423°N 1.848°W / 51.423; -1.848
Kennet Avenue is located in Wiltshire
prehistoric
avenue
Neolithic
Avebury
The Sanctuary
Stuart Piggott
Alexander Keiller

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