-It begins to give us some insight into how the wider landscape was used at the time that Stonehenge was developing into the monument you see today.Like many of the ceremonial shrines located by the Hidden Landscapes Project, Stonehenge also began it

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This spiritual ambition and mastery of nature could be fundamental to the creation of Stonehenge. This is clearly the best view we ever have of Stonehenge from above. You can see the other parts of the monument, things like the ditch, which run aroun

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The challenge of discovering lost monuments and vacant space around the stone circle was one of the Hidden Landscapes projects. It's called Objectives. Sector after sector was scanned, but nothing was detected. Finally, less than a kilometre to the n

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-As we began to survey much larger areas of the landscape around Stonehenge, we began to see a number of other similar neolithic monuments which were hidden under. This monument Aims-41 just to the northeast of Stonehenge long thought to be a simple

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-The stones had to be brought from some distance that some large stones, and so these were important ** burial places that brought community together. The monumental nature of these stones symbolized a new level of collective endeavour and cultural a

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When the positions of the pits were computer modeled against the movement of the sun, the true importance became clear. The calculation showed amid the summers day, the eastern pits alignment with sunrise and western pits alignment with sunset, inter

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Five and half thousand years ago, Causewayed counties, like Crickley Hill and Robinhoods Bowl, were abandoned. Their decline signaled the end of large-scale hostilities in ancient Britain. In the relative peace that followed, monument construction in

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This is certain increase in amount of ever people willing to put into constructing monuments. 270 kilometers away in Norfolk, evidence of prehistoric mining operation shows the extraordinary efforts the Neolithic people made to meet the demand for hi

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-Here we are at the bottom of one of the shafts. It's a lot darker than it would have been in the Neolithic, because at moment there's a modern concrete cover just to protect the archaeology. The devision that would be open to sky, so the sun would b

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This is one of the larger galleries spaces down here in the mines. A lot of them are far more restricted than this. Because the reservation is so incredible, weve still got a whole series of their antelopes peaks, the tools they were using down here

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-When they look at the skeletons that they were found down in the lower levels of the mine, one was actually covered by rubbles and all that sort of material just behind me here. The body was laying stretched out in the gallery as if going towards th

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It consists of rings of circulated ditches with gaps in them. These gaps are the causeways, terms the name of cause but enclosure. Structure like Robbinhood Ball, brought with them the Neolithic concept dividing up the land. These monuments represent

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-Crickley Hill gives us a completely new picture of the scale of violence in prehistoric Britain. It's really the first time that we see evidence for warfare between sub-communities or even groups of communities on a completely different scale to wha

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Recently at a site only two kilomtres to the southeast, archaeologists have unearthed the first traces of people living in the same period. It's a find that may finally answer why stonehenges located where it is. Here is the section through one of th

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It would be a brilliant place for hunt together as to hides and observe the movements of these huge animals. Topographical scans have revealed the contours of this ancient landscape, features that mesolithic kind togetherness could exploit. Where the

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