English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge

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According to The Guardian’s source item, English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge, The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circle It may have been a place for ceremony or a barn for pack animals. It could have been a place for weary labourers to rest their heads. Or perhaps there was no building at all. English Heritage has unveiled a 7-metre-high reconstruction of what a 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall may have looked like at Stonehenge, offering visitors a glimpse into the lives of the prehistoric builders who raised the world’s most famous stone circle. Continue reading…

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