Could wooden structure discovered at Stonehenge be a tomb?

William Atkins
Monday, 26 July 2010 01:34

Science - Biology

An international team of archaeologists and scientists has found a previously undiscovered wooden structure just a little ways from the stone circle that the world knows as Stonehenge.

 

The team consists of scientists from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Austria.

Dr. Vince Gaffney, a professor from the University of Birmingham and the chair in Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics, led the international team of scientists on this archaeological dig in the southern part of England.

According to the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (IAA), at the University of Birmingham, “Archaeologists from IAA have been involved in re-writing history, following the discovery of a major ceremonial monument less than one kilometre away from Stonehenge.”

 

The IAA article A new ‘henge’ discovered at Stonehenge, continues with “The new henge was discovered just two weeks into a three year international study that forms part of the multi-million Euro Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. The aim of the project is to map 14 square kilometres of the Stonehenge landscape, to recreate visually the iconic prehistoric monument and its surroundings and transform how we understand the landscape.”

Dr. Gaffney adds, “It seemed to have a large-ditched feature, but it seemed to be made of individual scoops rather than just a straight trench. When we looked more closely we then realised there was a ring of pits about a metre wide going all the way around the edge.”

And, “When you see that as an archaeologist, you just look at it and think, ‘that’s a henge monument’ – it’s a timber equivalent to Stonehenge.”

Page two continues with further details of the story from England.