The Western and Northern earthworks of Durrington Walls
This is one of those monuments that comes across as slightly dull on first examination, but when you examine its history it becomes startlingly significant! This site and its surroundings once contained a vast Neolithic village of possibly 1000 dwellings and around 4000 people and, given its proximity to Stonehenge, Woodhenge, The Cursus, The Avenue, etc., it’s more than likely that the people living here over the course of its 500 year lifespan, were the builders of this amazing ritual landscape. They weren’t all local either as animal bones found on various excavations provide evidence that people had travelled considerable distances around Britain to build and celebrate on this site.
A panorama of the Southern and Western earthworks
close up of the Southern earthwork adjacent to Woodhenge