#prehistoric settlement

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Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement

The group of prehistoric monuments at Merrivale, where a Bronze Age settlement site and an earlier, Neolithic ritual complex lie side by side, is one of the finest on Dartmoor.

The monuments from the late Neolithic (3000–2300 BC) here comprise two double stone rows, a single row, a small stone circle, two standing stones nearby, and a number of cairns (mounds of stones) associated with burials. Nearer to the road is a large cluster of roundhouses—a typical settlement from the Bronze Age (2300–800 BC).

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Dolmen and Monoliths, Druid's Temple, Ilton, Yorkshire, 21.10.19.

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Lordenshaw Hill Iron Age Hill Fort, Lordenshaw, Northumberland, 25.1.20.

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Model Iron Age Hill Fort, Biggar Museum and Gallery, Lanarkshire, 22.10.19.

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Partially submerged Bronze Age timbers from a raised walkway and platform at Flag Fen, Peterborough, 24.8.19.

These timbers represent only a fraction of a huge substantial structure at Flag Fen; an elevated walkway and a massive platform across the wetlands. It is thought that the platform was larger than Wembley Stadium. Many votive offerings have been found in the waters and mud in the vicinity. Sadly it's likely these timbers will only last another twenty or thirty years before they decay and are lost.

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Carlungie Prehistoric Earth House, Angus, Scotland, 24.10.19.

A series of underground passages and spaces that existed alongside an Iron Age roundhouse for either storage, defensive or ritual purposes.

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The underground spaces (fogou and chambers) of Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement, Penzance, Cornwall, 22.7.19.

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Capel Garmon Prehistoric Burial Chamber, North Wales, 9.11.19.