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Stone 33 — Avebury: The Stone Circle 4

Megalith (abstract root)

Stone 33

Also known asAvebury Stone 33 · ST33 · Stone no. 33

Kingdom of the Netherlands

DatedEst. 3470–2760 BCE

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Photo Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0Photo taken at this location (Wikimedia Commons)Source file on Wikimedia Commons

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Overview

Stone 33 is a megalith in Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is also known as Avebury Stone 33, ST33, Stone no. 33. It lies at 51.4291° N, 1.8564° W.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
This site

Est. 3470–2760 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

The published range for this kind of monument in this region. It is not a date for this site.
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Stone 33

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Context

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A megalith is a large stone used to build a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified in Europe, from Sweden in the north to the Mediterranean in the south, and megaliths are found worldwide. The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert for Stonehenge, and comes from the Greek for "great stone". Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic, with some earlier Mesolithic examples, and the Bronze Age. The oldest known ceremonial structures in the world, Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori in Turkey, are dated to about 9000 BCE. The regional background, “Megalith (type not specified)”, is given below.

Dating

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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Kingdom of the Netherlands are generally dated 3470 BCE to 2760 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.

Dutch hunebedden were built between 3470 and 3250 BC and were used until about 2760 BC.