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Durrington Walls

Near Amesbury, Wiltshire

The village of the people who built Stonehenge.

Durrington Walls is a henge about 500 metres across, just north-east of Stonehenge. Inside stood timber circles, and excavators found the floors of houses.

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When
c. 2600 BC
Where
51.1920, -1.7860
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

National Trust, free. A short walk from Woodhenge.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

About three kilometres north-east of Stonehenge lies Durrington Walls, a henge about 500 metres across. Its ditch was around 5.5 metres deep. People lived here for about 500 years.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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