Windmill Hill

archaeological site, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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Windmill Hill is an archaeological site in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, believed to have been a center for ritual and seasonal tribal fasting in the 4th millennium BCE. It is part of a larger Neolithic complex in the region, which also includes Durrington Walls and Stonehenge. These sites, collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, are situated near the River Avon.12

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Neolithic Period
, Windmill Hill, Wiltshire), which are now believed to have been centres of ritual and of seasonal tribal feasting. From them developed, late in the 3rd millennium, more clearly ceremonial ditch-enclosed earthworks known as henge monuments. Some, like Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, are of great size and…
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, Windmill Hill, Wiltshire), which are now believed to have been centres of ritual and of seasonal tribal feasting. From them developed, late in the 3rd millennium, more clearly ceremonial ditch-enclosed earthworks known as henge monuments. Some, like Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, are of great size and…
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Wiltshire
…including those at Avebury and Windmill Hill. The latter is believed to have been a centre of ritual and of seasonal tribal fasting in the 4th millennium bce. Long Neolithic burial mounds, or barrows, abound, as do round burial mounds from the Bronze Age. Durrington Walls, a large ditch-enclosed ceremonial…
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…including those at Avebury and Windmill Hill. The latter is believed to have been a centre of ritual and of seasonal tribal fasting in the 4th millennium bce. Long Neolithic burial mounds, or barrows, abound, as do round burial mounds from the Bronze Age. Durrington Walls, a large ditch-enclosed ceremonial…
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