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Chris Collyer May 14, 2006 10:37:59

Channel 4
4.40pm
Time Team Special
The team investigate recent finds at Durrington Walls, Wessex, and consider what they reveal about Stone Age life. Among the discoveries are a Neolithic road which leads to Stonehenge and is believed to be the route of traditional burial ceremonies. They also examine an arrangement of 160 trees in perfect circles, which may have provided a setting for traditional feasts

nigelswift May 17, 2006 07:11:53

Replying to Chris Collyer

No-one has commented about this. Is that because it was a repeat and it has already been gone over?

I thought it was fascinating. I was really struck by Mike Parker Pearson's vision of huge winter festivals with people coming together to feast - and to engage in shooting pigs as a competitive bit of sport. I immediately thought of Littlestone's suggestion about Avebury - maybe the pigs were put in the ditch to be picked off?!