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This aerial view shows the stones and part of the processional Avenue that linked Stonehenge to the River Avon at West Amesbury. The low encircling bank and ditch shows up clearly. The enclosure formed by these earthworks was the first phase of construction dating from around 2,800 BC; during the Neolithic period. During the later Neolithic period Stonehenge was probably an enclosed cemetery and was used as such for several hundred years and then left derelict. There may have been a timber building inside it; possibly a temple. The building of the enclosure and possible wooden temple suggests that people were beginning to farm and live communally in settlements in this area; only a communal effort could have produced them.
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