STONEHENGE OPEN
DAY FOR EXCAVATIONS
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[ September 11th 2006 ]
A team
of 100 British archaeologists have been carrying
out excavations as part of a seven-year Riverside
Project at Woodhenge, Durrington Walls and Stonehenge
Cursus to find out more about the sites and their
links with Stonehenge in the 26th Century BC.
According
to the Salisbury
Journal, the public were invited to attend
excavation open days over the weekend which included
tours of the site, the opportunity to meet the
archaeologists, and re-enactments of life 4,000
years ago.
Professor
of archaeology at Sheffield University Mike Parker-
Pearson is leading the dig: "I think our most
exciting discovery is the ceremonial avenue which
leads from Durrington Walls to the river. We excavated
some of it last year, but we've finally uncovered
it and it's much bigger than we thought."
The Stonehenge
Cursus is a long rectangular earthwork that runs
for about 3km (1.8 miles) on an east-west alignment.
It was built during the Neolithic period, around
3100BC, making it slightly earlier than the circular
bank and ditch of the first phase of Stonehenge.
(English Heritage)
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