It is 30 years since the inscription of Stonehenge and Avebury onto the World Heritage list in 1986, and on 19 and 20 November the Stonehenge and Avebury WHS Coordination Unit celebrated with a conference in
the Corn Exchange, Devizes and series of events across the World Heritage Sites.
The Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site consists of two blocks of Wessex chalkland some 40 km apart. Individually they contain distinctive complexes of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments; together they are one of the most iconic and important prehistoric landscapes in the world.
Wessex Archaeology has been coordinating the revision of the Avebury Resource Assessment, the Research Activity in the Stonehenge Landscape and writing an Agenda and Strategy to cover both of the World Heritage Sites. These important documents were launched at the conference on Saturday 19 November and will guide future researchers and those involved in the management of these iconic sites.
You can download these documents from www.stonehengeandaveburywhs.org