Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire. The henge is the second-largest Late Neolithic palisaded enclosure known in the United Kingdom, after Hindwell in Wales.[3]
Between 2004 and 2006, excavations on the site by a team led by the University of Sheffield revealed seven houses. It has been suggested that the settlement may have originally had up to 1,000 houses and perhaps 4,000 people, if the entire enclosed area was used. The site was settled for about 500 years, starting sometime between c. 2800 and 2100 BC.[4]
The site may have been the largest settlement in northern Europe for a brief period.[5][6][7] From 2010 to 2014, a combination of new technology and excavations revealed a 500-metre-diameter (1,600 ft) henge constructed largely of wooden posts. Evidence suggests that this complex was a complementary monument to Stonehenge.[8]
In 2020, a geophysical survey uncovered a number of pits, some natural sink holes and others apparently modified to hold massive timbers, interpreted as belonging to a 1.2-mile-wide (1.9 km) circle or circuit of 10-metre (33 ft) pits of Neolithic age. If this interpretation is correct, this would be Britain's largest prehistoric monument.[9]
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DurringtonWalls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies...
Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury. Woodhenge was believed to...
Parker Pearson, leader of the Stonehenge Riverside Project based around DurringtonWalls, noted that Stonehenge appears to have been associated with burial...
World War II radar station Durrington, Wiltshire, a village and parish DurringtonWalls, a prehistoric henge monument Durrington grass, a grass, also known...
understood of the four British 'superhenges' (the others being Avebury, DurringtonWalls and Mount Pleasant Henge)". The word henge is a backformation from...
The stone, which is now fallen, is in a field near to Woodhenge and DurringtonWalls in Wiltshire, England (grid reference SU14654335). It is part of the...
Grooved ware pottery has been found in abundance in excavations at DurringtonWalls and Marden Henge in Wiltshire. Here, the feasting would have involved...
and surrounding monuments and features, including the River Avon, DurringtonWalls, the Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge, burial mounds, and nearby standing...
that dotted Salisbury Plain at the time, such as those that stood at DurringtonWalls. Modern anthropological evidence has been used by Mike Parker Pearson...
routeway between DurringtonWalls and Stonehenge. It is thought that it was a ceremonial route from an area of life at DurringtonWalls, through Bluestonehenge...
recorded. One of the earliest uses of earth-moving machinery was at DurringtonWalls in 1967. An old road through the henge was to be straightened and improved...
4 show Time Team in particular in one looking at the excavation of DurringtonWalls in Wiltshire. He also appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary...
in the size of the Earthwork at Stonehenge and the nearby circle at DurringtonWalls. Although Stonehenge has become an increasingly popular destination...
other earthworks were built across the plain. By 2500 BC areas around DurringtonWalls and Stonehenge had become a focus for building, and the southern part...
partially survives as an earthwork. Like other 'superhenge' sites such as DurringtonWalls much of the earthworks have been ploughed or weathered away and it...
of Silbury Hill and the major building projects at Stonehenge and DurringtonWalls. For this reason, he speculated that there may have been a "religious...
area features two structures based on excavations from DurringtonWalls near Stonehenge; Durrington 851 and its ancillary building. These are both wattle...
DurringtonWalls Maeshowe, it is aligned so that the rear wall of its central chamber, a rough cube of five yards square held up by a bracketed wall,...
Long Barrow Other Monuments Avebury Beckhampton Avenue Bluestonehenge DurringtonWalls The Sanctuary Stonehenge Stonehenge Avenue Stonehenge Cursus Silbury...
project, although this was delayed due to archaeological discoveries at DurringtonWalls. The Stonehenge Alliance asserted that this will cause irreparable...
around Stonehenge. The results of surveys at the “super-henge” at DurringtonWalls exposed new evidence for the development of the massive earthwork,...
ritualistic uses - an association between water and funerary monuments as at DurringtonWalls and Stonehenge is possible. Its proximity to a spring may be to do...
henges, such as that at Woodhenge and henge enclosures such as those at DurringtonWalls. The only excavated examples of timber circles that stood alone from...
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