New Complex of Mammoth Shafts Found Near Stonehenge Complex

In further Stonehenge news (hey, tis the Solstice season!), The Guardian recently published a news story regarding new archaeological discovering made in the vast ritual complex that includes Stonehenge and Woodhenge. The article begins

“A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

“Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter. The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre. The site is 1.9 miles north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire.”

Read the whole magilla

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/22/vast-neolithic-circle-of-deep-shafts-found-near-stonehenge.

Thanks to Soror Amy for the tip!

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