Dorstone Hill
The remains of two Neolithic houses of the dead were found northeast of the village of Dorstone, on Dorstone Hill , near Peterchurch in Herefordshire in England .
The buildings, initially called “Halls of the Dead” (although no remains of corpses were found) were built between 4000 and 3600 BC. Erected, burned down and found in 2013 as charred remains in prehistoric burial mounds 70 m long and 30 m wide. Early Neolithic burials of this type are extremely rare; to find them in an English long hill is so far unique. The excavator was able to reconstruct the structure (but not the original size) from the traces. The interior was divided into small chambers that branched off from long corridors. The smaller burial mound contains an approximately 7 by 2.5 m chamber with huge foundation holes that supported tree trunks at each end.
In Denmark, a similar building was found in the Trappendal burial mound . Finds of larger houses under hills are also known from Germany, but they were paved and all continental finds of buildings of this size date from the Bronze Age .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 29.3 " N , 2 ° 59 ′ 9.8" W.