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A statue based upon British Iron Age examples. Peter Reynolds of Butser Ancient Farm was instrumental in the creation and development of experimental archaeology as a discipline, and experimental work has been carried out at Butser Ancient Farm since the site’s inception in 1972. Until his death in 2001, the research work of the farm focused ...
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
Bindon Hill, Iron Age earth enclosure. Great Orme, Bronze Age copper mines and an Iron Age hill fort. Grime's Graves, Neolithic flint mining complex. The Ridgeway, ancient trackway. Sweet Track, ancient causeway. Tarr Steps, late Bronze Age clapper bridge.
In Cornwall, [1] parts of Devon, and south Wales, enclosed settlements share many characteristics with their Irish counterparts, [6] including the circular shape and souterrains (), and their continuing occupation from the Iron Age into the early medieval period; the form later influencing the distinctive circular shell-keeps found across the medieval Severnside region. [7]
A portal is an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, especially a grand entrance to an important structure. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] Doors, metal gates , or portcullis in the opening can be used to control entry or exit.
Park Law Iron Age settlement near Sourhope in the Borders, was the site of an agricultural settlement during the Iron Age. Nearby hillsides have prominent lynchets or cultivation rigs. Agriculture in prehistoric Scotland includes all forms of farm production in the modern boundaries of Scotland before the beginning of the early historic era.
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Iron and copper working spread southward through the continent, reaching the Cape around AD 200. [6] [7] The widespread use of iron revolutionized the Bantu-speaking farming communities who adopted it, driving out and absorbing the rock tool using hunter-gatherer societies they encountered as they expanded to farm wider areas of savanna. The ...