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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