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Stone Age

A visitor stands on a toppled standing stone at the megalithic structure of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Stonehenge

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. (Photo by Richard Fairless/Getty Images)

The Library History explorer: Neolithic Britons

Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

Q&A What is the earliest evidence for a battle in Britain?

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In pictures: Stonehenge tourism

10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

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New Stonehenge visitor centre opens to public

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Computer generated graphic of the forecourt of the new Visitors Centre. (c) English Heritage

‘Missing piece’ of Stonehenge Avenue to open to visitors in December

1 - The A344 and the visitor car park as they are now. (c) English Heritage

‘Missing piece’ of Stonehenge Avenue uncovered

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

The Library 10 places where history was made

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Stonehenge may have been used as ‘elite graveyard’

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Britain’s prehistoric stone circles