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Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 30 January 2007 Page Views: 22173
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Site Name: Durrington Walls Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wiltshire Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Amesbury Nearest Village: Durrington
Map Ref: SU150438 Landranger Map Number: 184
Latitude: 51.193227N Longitude: 1.786727W
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Henge monument in Wiltshire. Best preserved on the north-east side, this great henge measures 520m from north to south and 450m from east to west (the diameter of Avebury is 427m).
The bank was originally 27m wide. The ditch was up to 42m wide and was 6m deep. There were two entrances, one at the north-west and the other at the south-east just 60m from the River Avon. Excavations revealed traces of two timber circles similar to Woodhenge and now interpreted as buildings. Surely not defensive, was it residential or religious?
The A345 from Amesbury to Netheravon runs through the site. Park at Woodhenge. Discovery of a prehistoric ceremonial road sheds new light on the Wiltshire henges, including Stonehenge, see comment.
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Note: Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a huge ancient settlement that they believe housed the hundreds of construction workers needed to build nearby Stonehenge, see latest comment below.
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 Durrington Walls submitted by Bladup
Durrington Walls at the winter solstice.
 Durrington Walls submitted by AngieLake
Standing beside the fence outside Woodhenge, looking across the Larkhill road towards the NW banks of Durrington Walls.
 Durrington Walls South Circle submitted by AngieLake
The South Circle shown on a plan of the features excavated at Durrington Walls between 1966-7.
(This also shows the North Circle and to its south, a timber avenue.)
[From 'Circles & Standing Stones' by Evan Hadingham, 1978 edition.]
 Durrington Walls submitted by AngieLake
Looking towards Durrington village beside the N/S-running road, this view gives the illusion of its houses seeming to stand on top of the noticeable NE bank of Durrington Walls.
 Durrington Walls submitted by AngieLake
Looking across the eastern section of Durrington Walls from the roadside, the bank shows up quite clearly in the east-to-south section.
 Durrington Walls submitted by AngieLake
The SE area of Durrington Walls, with the bend in the River Avon to the right of this view. I believe the lighter patch is where the excavation took place last year.
 Durrington Walls submitted by AngieLake
The eastern section of Durrington Walls showing a raised bank running diagonally from upper left to lower right. The patch in the field middle right is the excavation area I think. The River Avon lies just to the right of this. (6th Dec, about 10.30am)
 Durrington Walls submitted by Thorgrim
Durrington is vast and the slight traces of the circle suggest how impressive it once was. Now it is difficult to find anything photographable. This section is perhaps the most substantial.
 Durrington Walls submitted by Thorgrim
Very little to see at Durrington Walls except this sad traveller's' camp.
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Historical sites and roads (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 | Could someone please explain to me the British obsession with building roads right through the center of archeological sites? Especially when it could be easily avoided such as in the case of Stonehenge and Durrington Walls.
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Re: Historical sites and roads (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 | A large part of the basis of the road network in Britain is many hundreds of years old, over time the roads have been upgraded to what we have today. Most roads have appeared out of necessity, it is only i relatively modern times that there has been concern for archaeological sites. Sites like Stonehenge and the earthworks at Durrington Walls are examples of archaeological sites that are visible and recogisable in the landscape. The truth is beyond what is visible - lying beneath the ground, Britain is one huge archaeological site there are very few areas untouched by man in the last 10,000 years (and beyond).
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Re: Historical sites and roads (Score: 1)
by Martin_L on Wednesday, 25 April 2012
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Indeed. And this also applies to most other areas in the world. |
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 06 June 2007 | | What's with the BP and not BC? Just a colonist trying to shape you'all up! Regards from the California High Desert Area, 70 miles North of that mess in L.A. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Thursday, 08 February 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Just checked out Sheffield University's archaeology dept's website under 'Stonehenge Riverside Project' and its pages have now been updated to show all the latest news. Better still, there's a link to a National Geographic website video of Mike Parker Pearson talking about their recent discoveries.
(Have emailed Andy B with a link to this, as I don't know how to do this myself.) | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Tuesday, 06 February 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Did anyone see Prof. Mike Parker Pearson and a colleague (sorry, forgotten his name, but a Roman expert on Time Team usually), talking about the new settlement they've found at Durrington Walls on 'Richard and Judy' this afternoon - Tuesday, 6th February, Channel 4, 5.00 - 6.00pm?
Luckily, I switched on early in the interview and managed to video some of the reconstruction images, which were very interesting. It showed how Stonehenge and 'Woodhenge' would have looked in their setting. (I wasn't sure if they meant the actual 'Woodhenge' or the wooden post construction whose post-holes were uncovered at Durrington Walls.) Stonehenge looked a bit closer than it actually is. Also there was an image of how the huts would have looked - a rectangular building with wattle and daub walls (restored seasonally), surrounded by a circular wooden fence.
The route between the settlement and Stonehenge was discussed, including the movement along The Avenue. Mike PP also mentioned the vertical cliff above the river at the Durrington Walls end, saying they dropped off it into the river.
(I wonder if it was possible that the Avon was higher in those days, and nearer to the top of the 'cliff', thus making it easier to embark onto a craft of some sort??)
When supposed to be showing the new 'avenue' at Durrington, and presumably the Stonehenge Avenue, they discovered a pic of the Cursus came up instead, but fortunately Judy realised this and said, 'No, that's wrong, it's the Cursus.' Well done, Judy!
Early in the interview they were handling a bone with an arrow hole in it. Mike PP related how the domestic animals would have been shot with arrows for sport, before being cooked and eaten in the feasts. (See Dennis Price's article on Eternal Idol for his opinions on this.) | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Sunday, 04 February 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | I've only just picked up Francis Pryor's book 'Britain BC' where he also comments on this river/Avenue link:
"Mike [Parker-Pearson] and Ramilisonina see the Avenue as a symbolic dryland continuation of the river (which may help explain its two changes of direction). We may imagine funeral parties leaving Durrington Walls or Woodhenge, possibly taking a boat along the river and then passing along the Avenue through no man's land to the Stones within their circle at the very heart of the realm of the ancestors."
I hadn't read this when I formed my own theory about the Henge/River/Avenue/Stonehenge link, but as I said at the time:
"I must be the millionth person who's thought of this!"
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by Condros on Wednesday, 31 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | If the radiocarbon dates came back as the Iron Age settlement, as 2,500 BP, how can anyone claim it as Neolithic ??? I'm in a quandry, as than we are discussing an age just before Roman incursions, or did I read it wrong ??? | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by Condros (euacuinn@yahoo.es) on Wednesday, 31 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | YIKES !!!! I read it wrong, 2,600 BC, SORRY !!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a huge ancient settlement that they believe housed the hundreds of construction workers needed to build nearby Stonehenge.
Piles of animal bones found at the Neolithic village in Wiltshire, the largest of its kind ever found in Britain, suggest it was also the place to go for a lavish feast, featuring spit-roast pork and beef.
"We’re talking Britain’s first free festival. It’s part of attracting a labour force – throwing a big party," Professor Mike Parker Pearson, of the University of Sheffield, lead archaeologist, told Times Online.
He said that the village’s Neolithic inhabitants – who he believes are likely to be among the ancestors of modern Britons – were not primitive "cave men".
They were well-dressed in "smarter than you'd imagine" leather clothing and capable of enormous feats of engineering – notably the transport of the huge stones of Stonehenge 240 miles from Wales's Preseli Mountains to Salisbury Plain.
The excavations have unearthed hundreds of well-preserved houses with imprints of beds and wooden dressers still present on the clay floors.
More in The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2575005,00.html
also
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11067-ancient-housing-settlement-discovered-near-stonehenge.html
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' unearthed in Wiltshire (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Wednesday, 31 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | See my comments on 29th November 2005.
At the time I wrote to Mike Parker Pearson with my idea about transferring the ashes of the ancestors from Durrington Walls by some kind of vessel down the Avon to the Avenue after the sunrise ceremony, then carrying them to Stonehenge in time for Winter Solstice Sunset - and wouldn't that make a great reconstruction film by someone... perhaps Time Team.
He replied that they may well be interested in that idea.
Perhaps they really WILL now?! |
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Re: Stonehenge 'party village' Pig feasting ritual? (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Monday, 01 August 2011
(User Info | Send a Message) | Further to the discovery here of remains of huge feasts of young pigs killed around Winter Solstice:
"Midwinter Pigs
by Iacob Stirbu, Indiana USA. [Archaeology Magazine. July/Aug.2011, p.11, 'Letters'.]
"The discovery of quantities of barbecued juvenile pig bones near Stonehenge reminds me of an old rural custom in Romania where I was born and lived most of my life: 'Ignatul porcilor'. It is a sort of ritual sacrifice of the pigs on Dec 20. The pigs are those born in spring, and most of the farmers buy one around Easter.
The name Ignat has something to do with Agni or Igni, because after the pig is killed it has to be cleaned through fire. It is burnt until all his hair is gone and the superficial layer of skin removed.
I also remember that my parents were looking to the shape of some organs to predict the year to come.
At the end of the day you have to give part of the meat as charity to people in need that live around you."
[End of quote].
I found the part about the augury from the entrails interesting. It sounded as if it might have been the sort of scenario enacted at Durrington Walls during the building of Stonehenge. |
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Re: Ancient structure rises again at Woodhenge/Durrington Walls! (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 05 December 2005 | Available for download on UKNova for all you torrentgeeks :)
Don't forget - this cannot be a purely educational program - it has to be entertainign too, so don't give TT too hard a time !!
My one question has also been raised - where was Woodhenge in all this ?
Hopefully as the dig progresses TT will revisit and update us on it, with hopefully more conclusions and less speculation. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Ancient structure rises again at Woodhenge/Durrington Walls! (Score: 1)
by sem on Wednesday, 30 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | Maybe I missed something in this programme but at no point did I hear evidence for the holes being used for posts. Also I did miss the radio carbon dating due to one of my moggies coming in with a freshly killed rat (the body was still warm - ugh).
One advantage of living in Wales though is that it will be repeated on S4C - probably at 2am on a Thursday morning. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Ancient structure rises again at Woodhenge/Durrington Walls! (Score: 1)
by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Brilliant! Timeteam should take us more to proper digs and forget the 3 day rushed jobs. Just think how many people would have been needed to build Durrington Walls. How were they all fed and housed? Why was no mention made of Woodhenge? How could the archaeologists link Durrington with Stonehenge and fail to include Woodhenge which is on a hillside OVERLOOKING Durrington? | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside project (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | 'Durrington Walls' is the heading I'd hoped would attach itself to my thoughts on last night's Channel 4 Time Team Special programme, but it came up with 'Stonehenge Riverside Project' for some reason. Never mind.
Just musing on the symbolism of those ideas I had, *IF* they were viable, for that day-long ceremony:
The Midwinter Solstice sunrise at Durrington Walls recalled the Birth of the dead ancestors and the lightness of their most youthful years,
The trip down the waters of the river Avon represented the winding passage of their Lives,
Then the procession to Stonehenge via The Avenue (a long walk full of anticipation, with a grand final approach) reflected their acquisition of Respect and Reverence as they journeyed to the End of Life
Culminating in the celebration of their Joining with the Spirits of the Otherworld at the awesome monument of Stonehenge, when their ashes were scattered in its circle as the sun set on Midwinter Solstice.
I must be the millionth person who's thought of this!
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside project (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 November 2005 | Angie, I loved the programme last night, but I was surprised no-one on the show mentioned the sunrise at Durrington Walls/sunset at Stonehenge thing. So I went looking on the net to see if anyone else had the same thought, and here you are!
After all the speculation about pig feasts and so forth, it does seem an obvious step to suppose that everyone went from watching the sun come up at the one monument to watching the sun come down at the other. I've long supported the midwinter interpretation of Stonehenge's alignment precisely because we have a great big blow-out at Christmas (and pretty much everyone in the high northern latitudes does the same at this time of year), but we have no such party in midsummer.
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside project (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Thanks Derek - I was beginning to think I'd made a big mistake, and it had been mentioned in the prog! |
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by Thorgrim (Spamproof.com) on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I agree entirely - midwinter was the important festival. The idea being to halt the decline of the sun and to bring it back higher in the sky and to lengthen the days. Midwinter marked the turning point. It was mentioned very briefly on the programme. Makes me laugh when I see all those people cavorting at Stonehenge to welcome the mid-summer sun. Guess they wouldn't be so keen to go there for a cold midwinter sunset party!. |
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside project (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | If anyone thinks this is a viable proposition, maybe it isn't too late for Time Team to get organised to do a 'mock-ceremony' along these lines on this Midwinter Solstice - 21st December 2005?? Perhaps we should suggest it to the producer? It would make great television!
(Failing that - Trinny and Susannah - 'What Not to Wear' - could do a makeover on Mick and Phil ......? Aaawww, only kidding, I love them like they are - they're their own people! You've got to admire their style.) |
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by Anonymous on Wednesday, 30 November 2005 | Excellent programme and an amazing place. I like the Sunset at Durrington and sunrise at Stonehenge thing - it feels right. It would be the way I would do it if I was in charge of the event! If only English Heritage were letting people visit Stonehenge on Winter Solstice. Sadly I cannot now follow in my ancestors (proposed) footsteps as someone with a clipboard has decreed that it is not acceptable. I find it hard to accept strangers deciding when and where I can celebrate the wheel of life and give thanks for the year. Some people have the magic and some do not. Those with the magic are always smiling inside. So another Winter Solstice at the Nine Ladies beckons. Gazing at Saturn and Mars and willing the sun up in the morning, tears of joy in my eyes, surrounded by my ancient friends, wrapped up warm, connected completely to the earth and in total awe of the Sun. The wheel has nearly turned and Ra is soon to return . . .
Also note on Stonehenge visiting - they are not opening the monument between 19-28 Dec 05 according to the website. Also did you know you can go on special private 1 hour visits to the henge (that you must book) early in the morning or late at night. They let you get around the stones and it is the only time you could be alone there . . . |
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Re: Durrington Walls (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 November 2005 | What a great program !!!
It put Channel 5's pathetic half-hearted effort at midsummer into perspective.
Just a shame that they couldn't leave the posts standing. It would be a nice addition and an insight to have something like this erected and made permanent.
Wonder how much it would cost ? | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside project (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Tuesday, 29 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | I found last night's programme very interesting, especially the finding of the avenue, and the reconstruction of the timber circles. It gives us a better idea of that feature's awesome-ness to the people who gathered there. Hearing different opinions on how the huge posts might have been decorated also brought it to life. Best of all is the modern technology that creates virtual reality re-construction of these places. If only we'd had this kind of history teaching when I was at school! (Left in '62).
I envied those guys travelling down the Avon in their barge, too - what a great way to explore the area. I don't recall them picking up the link with The Avenue that connects with Stonehenge by landing on the river bank further downstream, and walking up that way towards it. Though Professor Pearson was probably right in his theories, they seemed slightly disjointed when the ashes of the dead were tipped into the river near Durrington Walls to float down to Stonehenge, knowing they'd just sweep past it, at some distance away, after negotiating two large bends in the river.
Surely it would make more sense if they all went by boat down the Avon, after their Durrington Walls celebration, then disembarked close to the end of The Avenue, and walked up to Stonehenge, where they then dispersed the ashes in the circle? Or maybe there was just one boat, occupied by a priest and his assistants, who took this trip with the remains of the ancestors?
It's just occurred to me that if they were celebrating the Midwinter Solstice sunrise at Durrington Walls henge, it would be possible to see that there, then travel by boat downstream to finish the journey on foot up The Avenue to Stonehenge in plenty of time for the sunset the same evening. Many people think this was what Stonehenge was created for, and on that day, perhaps it was the 'grand final' of the ancestors' dedication ceremony??
Must visit next time I'm up that way, and maybe dowse the place for ritual movement. | [ Reply to This ]
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Digging up Stonehenge's hidden secrets (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Friday, 21 October 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | A team of archaeologists from five UK universities (Sheffield, Manchester, Bournemouth, Bristol and UCL) have overturned conventional understanding of Stonehenge after discovering a prehistoric ceremonial road. The newly discovered avenue, excavated this summer, links Britain´s largest henge at Durrington Walls to the River Avon just 3 miles from Stonehenge.
The new find supports the team´s theory that Stonehenge was just one part of a much larger complex of stone and timber circles linked by ceremonial avenues to the river. New radiocarbon dates from Durrington Walls indicate that this henge was in use at the same time as the sarsen stones were erected at Stonehenge.
The newly-discovered roadway, with its rammed flint surface, is wider than most modern roads and more substantial than any other Neolithic track in Europe. It runs for approximately 100 metres from the timber circle within the great henge to the river. Careful analysis has shown that the avenue was heavily trampled by prehistoric feet, and archaeologists have unearthed numerous finds along its edge including houses, pottery, and ancient rubbish tips.
Professor Mike Parker Pearson, from the University of Sheffield´s Department of Archaeology, believes that Stonehenge and Durrington Walls (together with its adjacent site of Woodhenge) were linked by the river to form a single complex. He has suggested that the entire complex was a funerary monument to the prehistoric dead. According to this theory, the stones at Stonehenge commemorate ancestors who had left the transitory world of the living, which is symbolised in wood at Durrington Walls and Woodhenge.
Professor Pearson said: "The discoveries will have a major impact on archaeologists´ understanding of this landscape and they demonstrate how little is still known about the archaeological remains of this World Heritage Site."
The Stonehenge Riverside Project is managed by Professors Pearson, Thomas and Tilley, and Drs Pollard, Richards and Welham.
This years´ research has been funded by the British Academy, the Royal Archaeological Institute, the MacDonald Institute and English Heritage.
The work has been filmed for a Channel 4 Time Team special, to be screened next year.
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Ancient structure rises again at Woodhenge/Durrington Walls! (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 09 September 2005 | A film company is recreating one of the two timber structures found inside Durrington Walls some distance from the original site. The replica is to the original scale and comprises enormous 65 ft plus pine logs. The project is part of a TV programme to be shown towards the end of the year.
The replica gives some sense of the assumed massive scale of the original. Were the originals carved or painted, and did they support something else? Who knows?
Once filming is complete the construction will be dismantled (sadly).
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