Prehistory / beginnings before 1066

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PREHISTORY / BEGINNINGS BEFORE 1066

- stone circles

- dolmens

- barrows

- burial chambers

- hill forts

- dykes

hill / chalk figures

- The oldest surviving designed structures in Britain are the stone chambered tombs that form part of long barrows, raised between about 3800 and 3400 BC during the early Neolithic period.

* Kit's Coty House in Kent (Neolithic)

- is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesfordin the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state.

* Belas Knap in Gloucestershire