Durrington Walls is a prehistoric henge enclosure monument situated close to Woodhenge on Salisbury Plain. It is a Class II henge and measures around 500m in diameter. Along with the other giant examples at Avebury, Marden and Mount Pleasant in Dorset it constitutes the 'super-henge' group of monuments with a diameter greater than 300 metres. A henge enclosure is the name given by archaeologists to a British prehistoric monument type of late Neolithic date and found only in southern England. ... This article concerns Woodhenge in England. ... This article is about the plateau in southern England; Salisbury Plain is also an area on South Georgia Island. ... A henge is a roughly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20m in diameter which is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a ditch with an external bank. ... Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name. ... Marden could be Marden, Herefordshire Marden, Kent Marden, West Sussex Marden, Wiltshire This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Mount Pleasant Henge is a Neolithic henge enclosure in the English county of Dorset. ...
Durrington Walls was first occupied during the middle Neolithic. Two rings of concentric timber circles originally stood within the henge; the southern circle of four rings of timbers which was replaced by a five circle layout later in the Neolithic, and the northern circle consisting of two timber rings with an avenue of posts leading into it. The Neolithic (or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ... In archaeology, a timber circle is a circular arrangement of wooden posts. ...
It has been suggested that the timbers supported roofs and that the two circles represent large buildings that stood within the henge around 2500 BC. It is also possible that the structure was unroofed. Only post holes remain so we are unlikely to discover the structure of the monument above ground level.
The majority of Durrington Walls is now owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty , forming part of its Stonehenge Historic Landscape estate, and access to the monument is therefore free and open. The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ... Property of The National Trust, located near Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. ...
Durrington is somewhat unusual community in that it is small village that has grown to the size of a town because of a large army camp that has been in the parish since the early 20th century.
DurringtonWalls is between 1,500 and 1,700 feet in diameter and encloses some 30 acres.
Durrington continued to expand in the 1960s, after a drop in population in the 1950s owing to fewer military personnel being in the parish.
The monuments, namely Stonehenge, Avebury, Marden, and DurringtonWalls, will be used in conjunction with discussing what purposes monuments can serve, as well as what the remains of a site can tell us about the culture of a society.
DurringtonWalls The large circular earthwork situated north of the town of Amesbury in south Wiltshire, England has been one of the more neglected prehistoric monuments, overshadowed by the visual impact of Stonehenge.
Following the excavations at DurringtonWalls in 1976, Woodhenge was of particular interest to those who were researching into the archaeology and environment of henge enclosures in southern England around 2000 BC.
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