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Stone rows are to be seen on, for example, Dartmoor. They ate cattle, sheep, pigs and deer as well as shellfish and birds. They carried out salt manufacture. The wetlands were a source of wildfowl and reeds. There was ritual deposition of offerings in the wetlands and in holes in the ground. Bronze Age and Iron Age artefacts from East Anglia
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, Neolithic chambered tomb.; Barclodiad y Gawres, Neolithic cruciform passage grave.; Belas Knap, Neolithic long barrow.; Bryn Celli Ddu, Bronze Age passage grave on the site of a Neolithic stone circle and henge.
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'.
This prehistoric treasure chest hides a tragic story, and a warning. Over a period of just 1,500 years (roughly 8000BC to 6500BC), an area almost the size of Britain was swallowed up by the sea as ...
The Uffington White Horse, a Bronze Age hill figure. c. 1800 BC Wessex culture brings bronze-working to Britain. [19] c. 1600 BC Last known major construction at Stonehenge. c. 1400 BC Wessex culture replaced by more agrarian peoples; stone circles and early hillforts produced. [19] c. 1380-550 BC Uffington White Horse hill figure cut in ...
The Merton Stone, one of the largest glacial erratics in England. The major changes during the Pleistocene were brought about by several recent ice ages. The most severe was the Anglian Glaciation, with ice up to 1,000 m (3300 ft) thick that reached as far south as London and Bristol.
Today only the stone continues in customary use for measuring personal body weight. The present stone is 14 pounds (~6.35 kg), but an earlier unit appears to have been 16 pounds (~7.25 kg). The other units were multiples of 2, 8, and 160 times the stone, or 28, 112, and 2240 pounds (~12.7 kg, 50.8 kg, 1016 kg), respectively.
A Neolithic farmstead, probably the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe. [2] [3] West Kennet Long Barrow: Wiltshire, England 3650 BC Passage grave located near Silbury Hill and Avebury stone circle. [4] Midhowe Chambered Cairn: Rousay, Orkney, Scotland 3500 BC A well-preserved example of the Orkney-Cromarty type of chambered cairn ...