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|caption = Map showing Woodhenge and Durrington Walls within the Stonehenge section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site |alt = | map_type = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | relief = | area = |location = OS SU150437 |region = Wiltshire |latd = 51.1925 |longd = -1.786667 |coordinates_display = inline, title |type = henge |epochs = Neolithic |cultures = |excavations = 1966-7, 2003- |archaeologists = G.J. Wainwright, Stonehenge Riverside Project |public_access = Yes |condition = eroded banks and ditch |website = (National Trust ) |designation1 = World Heritage Site |designation1_number = 373 |designation1_date = 1986〔(UNESCO World Heritage site No 373 )〕 |designation2 = Scheduled Monument |designation2_number = 1009133〔(English Heritage Scheduled Monument record: Henge monuments at Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, a round barrow cemetery, two additional round barrows and four settlements ), accessed 24 January 2015〕 |designation2_date = 1929 }} Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It lies north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury. Between 2004 and 2006, excavations on the site by a team led by the University of Sheffield revealed seven houses. It has been suggested that the settlement may have originally had up to 1000 houses if the entire enclosed area was used. The period of settlement was probably short, between 15 to 45 years starting sometime between 2525 and 2470 BC. It may have been the largest village in northern Europe for a brief period. At in diameter, the henge is the largest in Britain and recent evidence suggests that it was a complementary monument to Stonehenge.〔(The New York Times ) 30 January 2007〕 In 2015, discovery of another monument, consisting of up to 90 standing stones buried under Durrington Walls, was announced.〔http://phys.org/news/2015-09-stonehenge-archeologists-huge-neolithic-site.html〕 ==Etymology== The name comes from the civil parish in which the site is located – Durrington, meaning "the farm of doers people" (doer-deer, ing-people/tribe, tun-farm/settlement), and the large henge banks that surround it. The "Dur" prefix is commonly found in this region of England; the Durotriges Celtic tribe inhabited this area before their defeat by the Romans in 4 A.D. Also, Dorchester was originally Durnovaria, and smaller cities (e.g., Durweston) and locations (e.g., Durborough Farm) are found in this region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Durrington Walls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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