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Newgrange passage grave, County Meath, Ireland, c,. 3200 BC, restored in 1975. Newgrange entrance and engraved stones. "The Neolithic period is one of remarkable changes in landscapes, societies and technologies, which changed a wild, forested world, to one of orderly agricultural production and settled communities on the brink of socially complex 'civilization'.
Seven Barrows, site of bowl barrows, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows. Spinsters' Rock, Neolithic dolmen. St Lythans, Neolithic dolmen. Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, Neolithic chambered tomb. Thickthorn Down Long Barrows, Neolithic long barrows in Dorset. Three Brothers of Grugith, Neolithic dolmen in Cornwall. Tinkinswood ...
Freston is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site near the village of Freston in Suffolk, England.Causewayed enclosures were built in England from shortly before 3700 until at least 3500 BC; they are characterised by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways.
Nestled within the valleys, hills and open fields of Wales, lies one of Western Europe's most remarkable collections of prehistoric Neolithic burial chambers. These ancient structures, dating from ...
The construction of the earliest earthwork sites in Britain began during the early Neolithic (c. 4400 BC – 3300 BC) in the form of long barrows used for communal burial and the first causewayed enclosures, sites which have parallels on the continent.
The archetypal ‘stone circles’ of the mid-to-late Neolithic are far rarer than commonly assumed, appearing mostly in Cumbria, Cornwall, Wiltshire, and Western Scotland. They are connected morphologically with sites in Ireland, connecting the henge tradition of Eastern England, with the passage tomb tradition of Ireland. [3]
The Creation of Monuments: Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in the British Isles. Swindon: English Heritage; Henge sites. Arminghall Henge A small henge at Arminghall in Norfolk which also enclosed a ring of posts has a diameter of only 30 metres. It lies near the junction of the rivers Yare and Tas, less than 4 km south of the centre of Norwich.
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.