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  Britain timeline
     
c. 2500 BC
 
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A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture      
c. 2500 BC
 
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At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place     
c. 2200 BC
 
   
A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire      
Avebury
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c. 2000 BC
 
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The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze      
c. 310 BC
 
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Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule       
c. 300 BC
 
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The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island