„…thought to have been part of a ritual boundary area between the two sites“
This isn’t the sort of thing we usually cover but I thought this was pretty interesting so I’m taking a break from politics and protests. Researchers in England have discovered a massive new element to an existing Neolithic site near Stonehenge. The find is a series of large pits arranged in a circle around an ancient town called Durrington Walls which existed at the time Stonehenge was under construction about 4,500 years ago.
The study, published online on Sunday, outlines the discovery of a large circle of shafts surrounding the ancient village — known as the Durrington Walls henge monument — about two miles from Stonehenge. The trenches, each of which is around 30 feet wide and 15 feet deep, are thought to have been part of a ritual boundary area between the two sites…
“As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape,” Nick Snashall, the National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, said in a statement.
