New henge at Stonehenge

Timberhenge is a Neolithic henge monument near Salisbury, 900 meters north-west of Stonehenge. The 4500 years old plant has a similar ring structure as the stone circle of Stonehenge, however, has been constructed of wood. It was built at the time as Stonehenge reached its full complexity. The structure was discovered in July 2010.

Discovery

An international group of researchers headed by Vince Gaffney in conjunction with English Heritage, the National Trust, the University of Bradford, the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham and the Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology with location at the University of Vienna resulted in the framework of the laid to three years Stonenhenge - Hidden Landscape project in July 2010 by research to create with the aim of a digital archaeological structures in the underground of the 14 km ² of the map landscape around Stonehenge.

Even before the excavations, archaeologists found 16 July 2010 at the probing of the area with ground penetrating radar and magnetometers, a circular depression.

Description

In a three- kilometer and hundred -meter-wide moat is located below a 1.5 meter high round grave mound, a circular pit with a diameter of 25 meters and a plurality of holes of wooden posts, which, four in a row, polygonal included the hill. These posts extent 70 cm to one meter in diameter. It is unclear whether they were supports for a roof or " totem -like structures " represented.

The trench had probably two entrances, one in the north east and another in the Southwest that had the same orientation as the inputs to Stonehenge.