Durrington Walls

United Kingdom / England / Durrington-Bulford /
 wall(s), henge, interesting place, abandoned settlement, scheduled ancient monument, enclosure (archaeology)
Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic setttlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury. Excavations on the site by a team led by the University of Sheffield, support an estimate of a community of several thousand, thought to be the largest one of its age in north-west Europe.[1][2] At 500m in diameter, the henge is the largest in Britain and recent evidence suggests that it was a complementary monument to Stonehenge.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrington_Walls
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Coordinates:   51°11'33"N   1°47'11"W

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  • The Neolithic-period peoples who built Stonehenge lived here. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/01/30/settlement_that_housed_stonehenges_builders_unearthed
  • Time Team had a televised dig here in 2006
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