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Stonehenge

Tides of History

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Stonehenge - The Pit of Conybery

After around four thousand b c, as farmers brought their way of life to britain from the continent and spread out, they built farmsteads and villages in the vicinity of stonehenge. The earliest evidence for the farmers presence is a large pit at coneybery, about one point four kilometers away. In the centuries after the feast at conyberry, the landscape filled up with monuments and constructions including long barrows holding the remains of the dead. A ring of six pits, known as aubrey holes, runs around the very inside lip of the bank. They're nowhere near the size we'd expect for the large sarsen stones that make up most of stone

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