Hi all,
Something new at Stonehenge!
20 shafts, 33 feet in diameter, arranged in a circle 1.2 miles wide. News announced the day after the summer solstice.
The circle of pits is significantly larger than any comparable prehistoric monument in Britain.
"Fieldwork and analysis have revealed evidence of 20 or more massive prehistoric shafts - more than 10 metres in diameter and five metres deep - forming a circle more than two kilometres in diameter around the Durrington Walls henge.
Coring of the shafts suggest the features are Neolithic and excavated more than 4,500 years ago - around the time Durrington Walls was built." Daily Mail
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Images released by the University of St Andrews.
It's not exactly a circle though. Is it perhaps a Thom egg? How many shafts would there have been originally? Why are the shafts so massive?
So many questions!
m
Something new at Stonehenge!
20 shafts, 33 feet in diameter, arranged in a circle 1.2 miles wide. News announced the day after the summer solstice.
The circle of pits is significantly larger than any comparable prehistoric monument in Britain.
"Fieldwork and analysis have revealed evidence of 20 or more massive prehistoric shafts - more than 10 metres in diameter and five metres deep - forming a circle more than two kilometres in diameter around the Durrington Walls henge.
Coring of the shafts suggest the features are Neolithic and excavated more than 4,500 years ago - around the time Durrington Walls was built." Daily Mail
Images released by the University of St Andrews.
It's not exactly a circle though. Is it perhaps a Thom egg? How many shafts would there have been originally? Why are the shafts so massive?
So many questions!
m