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The Medway tombs and the Derbyshire chamber tombs occupy a special position as examples of megalithic sites in East England. The north–south boundary between earthen sites and stone sites in England and Scotland is crossed at three points to the east by the seven different types of megalith site types (in the so-called mixed regions).
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There are many prehistoric sites and structures of interest remaining from prehistoric Britain, spanning the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a World Heritage Site. [1]
The French ministry of culture lists the following numbers of megalithic monuments: Menhirs: 1172 Dolmen: 1349 Carnac stones, Brittany; Mégalithes du causse de Blandas [], over 80 megaliths exist on the Blandas plateau in the Massif Central ( Gard department) in southern France.
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The Early Neolithic was a revolutionary period of British history. Beginning in the fifth millennium BCE, it saw a widespread change in lifestyle as the communities living in the British Isles adopted agriculture as their primary form of subsistence, abandoning the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that had characterised the preceding Mesolithic period. [1]
In Cornwall, megalithic structures such as menhirs, stone rows, and stone circles, as well as other distinctive monument forms such as tor enclosures, simple tombs, portal dolmens, and long mounds, were built from the early Neolithic until the first millennium BCE. [107] [108] [94] [109] Tor enclosures. Helman Tor, a Neolithic tor enclosure
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