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

12:45 Lunch
14:30 Ways of understanding Stonehenge and its landscape through history
16:00 Tea
16:30 The post-glacial occupation of Salisbury Plain (Mesolithic)
18:30 Dinner
20:00 The early to mid Neolithic at Stonehenge
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Monday

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 The Later Neolithic
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Bronze and Iron Age
12:45 Lunch
14:00 New approaches to evaluating Use of Animals in the Stonehenge Landscape in the Prehistoric Periods.
15:30 Course disperses

No academic qualification is required of applicants, and most courses are suitable for students who are new to the subject.

All teaching is in English (unless a foreign-language course). If your first language is not English, you need to satisfy yourself that you have the required near-native command of the language to get the maximum benefit from studying with ICE.

A booklist, course syllabus and detailed timetable are circulated as far as possible in advance of a course. You will receive these documents by email if you have provided us with your email address; please check your spam folder if you have not received these documents. You can also download material from the course web page.

About Madingley Hall

Madingley Hall itself is an impressive manor house dating back to the mid-16th century. The decoration of the Saloon and the formal Stair Hall was carried out 200 years later, and the whole fabric was renovated with great care around 1900. About four miles from the centre of Cambridge, the Hall stands in several acres of beautifully-maintained gardens and overlooks a landscape which has changed relatively little since it was laid out by Capability Brown. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London, with excellent links to London airports.

Directions to Madingley Hall