Stonehenge, the known Neolithic stone rings, remains as mysterious as ever, and now archaeologists have discovered an even larger prehistoric ring of 16-foot-deep, 33-foot-wide wells just two miles from the widely identified site.
The discovery, more “Holehenge” than Stonehenge, is hailed as the UK’s largest prehistoric.
Archaeologists at the University of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, have discovered the ancient site through the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, which brings together experts in non-invasive geophysical exploration and specialists in British pre-ice remote sensing and landscape archaeology.
Using the generation of remote sensors for surveys, the team set out to study the gaps in the largest acircular Stonehenge of the UNESCO World Heritage site. What they discovered was a chain of no less than 20 prehistoric wells; archaeologists there could have been more than 30 originally.
“The overwhelming maxim of Stonehenge acircular studied archaeological landscapes on earth and it is remarkable that the application of new technologies can achieve the discovery of a prehistoric design so giant that, today, it is much larger than a large prehistoric comparative monument of apple than we, no less. that in Britain,” said Vince Gaffney, president of the Faculty of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences. , in a prayer.
The design of the well bureaucracy in a partial circle about 1.2 miles in diameter, aimed to circulate the prehistoric hedge of Durrington Walls and also surrounded the small Woodhenge. The uniformity of the genus excludes the option of trees being of herbal origin.
Radiocarbon dating of the precision core of the surrounding sediments suggests that the wells were dug in acircular form 2500 BC.
The site’s goal, like Stonehenge, remains mysterious, however, “demonstrates the importance of Durrington Walls Henge, the complexity of the intellectual structures of Stonehenge landscape monuments, and the strength and preference of Neolithic communities to register their systems of cosmological trust in ways, and on a scale we had never expected before,” Gaffney said.
The team published their findings in the Internet Journal Archaeology.
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