Resumen de Dorstone Hill: a Neolithic timescape

Keith Ray, Julian Thomas, Nick Overton, Seren Griffiths, Tim Hoverd, Michael J. Allen, Alistair Barclay, Julie Birchenall, Dana Challinor, Charley French, Elizabeth Healey, Robert Ixer, Anne Roseveare, Martin Roseveare, Irene Garcia Rovira, Adam Stanford, Isabel Wiltshire

• Studies of early fourth-millennium BC Britain have typically focused on the Early Neolithic sites of Wessex and Orkney; what can the investigation of sites located in areas beyond these core regions add? The authors report on excavations (2011–2019) at Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, which have revealed a remarkable complex of Early Neolithic monuments: three long barrows constructed on the footprints of three timber buildings that had been deliberately burned, plus a nearby causewayed enclosure. A Bayesian chronological model demonstrates the precocious character of many of the site's elements and strengthens the evidence for the role of tombs and houses/halls in the creation and commemoration of foundational social groups in Neolithic Britain.