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History
The Iberians arrived in the British Isles about 300.000 years ago. In about 3000 BC these people started using stone as a building material. Neolitic farmers first built henges and chambered tombs made of huge stones.
Language No written records
Art Neolitic
STONEHENGE A prehistoric monument, an enormous stone circle in Southern England. Today astronomers think Stonehenge was used to measure the movements of the sun, moon and stars and also for pagan religious practices. Stonehenge is in fact a series of circles made of beaks of stone, some of which are very large.
AVEBURY A complex and gigantic megalithic monument of the beginning of the Bronze Age.
SILBURY HILL believed to be sepulchral and probably dating from early Bronze Age
