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Maumbury Rings
There are three main stages of use of the monument. It was originally a late Neolithic henge (c.2500BC), converted into an Amphitheatre in the 1st century AD by the Romans, then Parliament supporters remodelled the earthwork in 1642-3 during the Civil War.

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