3850BC. Coneybury Anomaly [Map] is a pit containing a large amount of early Neolithic pottery together with a large quantity of animal bone, and flint tools of both Mesolithic and Neolithic types suggesting a unique cross-cultural feast 12m north-west of Coneybury Henge [Map]. The bones included at least ten cattle, plus several roe deer, two red deer and a pig. The material was radiocarbon dated to 3850BC ±150.

2800BC to 2100BC. Durrington Walls was a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure.

Colt Hoare 1812. From hence, I proceed towards the vale of the river Avon, where, adjoining the public road, We find the interesting remains of a spacious British town or village, called Durrington, or Long Walls. The first name is evidently derived from the Celtic word for, water, and applies to the situation of the adjoining village of Durrington near the river. The site of this ancient settlement is decidedly marked by a circular embankment, partly natural, and partly artificial, which shelters it from the south-west winds: the view it commands in front, is delightful, facing the rich and well wooded vale, and the lofty range of Haradon and adjoining hills. Having been for many years in tillage, its form is much mutilated; but from what remains, it appears to have been of a circular form, and to have had a vallum all around it on the high ground, but not on the east side near the water. We picked up a great deal of pottery within the area of the works.

Colt Hoare 1812. On the south side of Durrington Walls, is an elevated mound, bearing the appearance of a barrow, No. 122 [Map], in which we dug to the depth of eleven feet, but found no sepulchral marks whatever.

4000BC. Robin Hood's Ball Enclosure [Map] is a Causewayed Enclosure constructed around 4000BC and in use until 3000BC around 4.3km north-west of Stonehenge standing on a low hill affording views in all directions including Stonehenge. It has one causeway.

Colt Hoare 1812. Iter IV. Starting once more From my head quarters at Amesbury, I shall direct my course towards KNIGHTON LONG BARROW [Map], which, from its elevated situation on a high ridge of land, rivals, if not surpasses, ELL BARROW in preminence of prospect, The first object of our attention: near a clump of trees called ROBIN HOOD BALL [Map], is one those ancient circles, which I have before mentioned and described in the Heytesbury Station, p. 80, This, like the generality of them, is placed on an elevated and commanding situation, but has this peculiarity, of having one circle within the other, with an entrance towards the north. We have to regret the great injury these circles have sustained by the plough, as in their original state they must have been highly curious, and are the more remarkable, from representing a double circle.

3000BC. Stonehenge Lesser Cursus is a Cursus around 400m long an 60m wide around 750 north-west of the Stonehenge Greater Cursus oriented west-southwest and east-northeast. It is now only visible as a cropmark. The Stonehenge Environs Project discovered Red Deer Antlers picks that dated the monument to 3000BC.

Carbon Date. 3350BC. Middle Neolithic Carbon Dates

ID: 6090, C14 ID: OxA-4902 Date BP: 5350 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 5270, End BP: 5430

Abstract: Stonehenge, England

Archaeologist Name: Allen

Reference Name: Archaeometry 38(2), 1996, 391-415

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Between 3000BC and 1500BC. Stonehenge Phase 1 Aubrey Holes are fifty-six pits 1m in diameter known as the Aubrey Holes after John Aubrey who first identified them. It isn't known whether the pits held posts or stones or neither.

The date for these holes, and consequently where they fit into the order of the wide monument is very vague. Excavation indicates Sarsen stone chips are found only in the upper layers suggesting the Aubrey holes pre-date the Sarsens.

The pits originally contained the 50,000 cremated bone fragments of sixty-three individuals which were excavated in 1920 by William Hawley who re-interred them in a single pit; Aubrey Hole 7.

In 2013 a team led by Mike Parker Pearson analysed the remains finding the individuals were equally male and female, including children, originally from south-west wales, the source of the Stonehenge Bluestones, and had not lived in the Stonehenge area for long before death. Evidence of chalk crushing at the base of the pits is believed to indicate the pits once contained the Stonehenge Bluestones as grave markers.

Between 2800BC and 2600BC. Stonehenge Phase 2 Timber Structure [Map] is irregular postholes dating to around 2800BC in the enclosure, at the north-east entrance and parallel post-holes inward from the south entrance. The 0.4m diameter postholes are smaller than the 1m Aubrey Holes. The bank was reduced, the ditch silted up. At least twenty-five Aubrey Holes were re-used for cremation burials. Thirty further cremations were placed in the enclosure's ditch and at other points within the monument, mostly in the eastern half. Dating evidence is through the presence of Grooved Ware.