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|caption = The Avenue, shown within the Stonehenge section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site |alt = | map_type = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | relief = | area = |location = |region = Wiltshire |latd = 51.179 |longd = -1.8253 |coordinates_display = inline, title |type = avenue |epochs = Neolithic |cultures = |excavations = from 1740, 2013 |archaeologists = William Stukeley, Heather Sebire |public_access = Yes |condition = Excellent |website = (National Trust ) |designation1 = World Heritage Site |designation1_date = 1986 (10th session) | designation1_number = (373 ) | designation1_criteria = i, ii, iii | designation1_type = Cultural | designation1_free1name = Region | designation1_free1value = Europe and North America |designation2 = Scheduled Monument |designation2_number = 〔: 'Stonehenge, the Avenue, and three barrows adjacent to the Avenue forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Countess Farm'〕 |designation2_date = 1882 }} Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, UK. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in the 18th century, it measures nearly 3 kilometers,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Avenue - An Overview )〕 connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Huge Settlement Unearthed At Stonehenge Complex )〕 It was built during the Stonehenge 3 period of 2600 to 1700 BCE. Along some of its length The Avenue is aligned with the sunrise of the summer solstice,〔 suggesting a time of most frequent use.〔 In 2013 a section of A344 road was closed, which had cut through the Avenue close to Stonehenge. After the road surface was removed, it was shown that although the Avenue's banks had been sliced off, the filled in ditches were still in evidence, demonstrating that the Avenue had indeed connected right through to the stone circle.〔(Summer Discoveries at Stonehenge ), English Heritage, 10 September 2013.〕 At the end of the Avenue, a similar ring of bluestones, Bluestonehenge, was discovered in 2009. Mike Parker Pearson of the Stonehenge Riverside Project believes that the Avenue was inspired by, and built over top of a natural glacial formation with an existing astronomical alignment.〔(''"...sits upon a series of natural landforms that, by chance, form an axis between the directions of midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset"'' ), 22 June 2012, University of Sheffield〕 The Avenue, along with Stonehenge itself, is a Scheduled Monument, first designated in the 1882 act which was the earliest legislation to protect British archaeological sites. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stonehenge Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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