The origins of Stonehenge: new discoveries and fresh perspectives

Course programme

Please plan to arrive between 10:00 and 12:00. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

Sunday

13:00 Lunch
14:30 Ways of understanding Stonehenge and its landscape through history
16:00 Tea
16:30 The post-glacial occupation of Salisbuty Plain (Mesolithic)
18:30 Dinner
20:00 The early to mid Neolithic at Stonehenge (Neolithic Monuments: first phases of Stonehenge, Long Barrows, the early Henges, The Cursus, latest developments).
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Monday

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 The Later Neolithic (Stonegenge phase 3, Durrington Walls, the Avenue, new approaches to evaluating where the people came from).
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Bronze and Iron Age (later phases of Stonehenge, Round Barrows, defended sites 'hillforts', Roman period).
12:45 Lunch
14:00 New approaches to evaluating Use of Animals in the Stonehenge Landscape in the Prehistoric Periods.
15:30 Course disperses