Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away [woodhenge]

Guardian UK ^ | Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Maev Kennedy

[SunkenCiv]

New wooden henge, a circular ditch that aligns with world-famous monument, deemed site's most exciting find in a lifetime -- Without a sod of earth being dug up, a new henge, a circular ditch which probably enclosed a ring of timber posts and may have been used for feasting, has been discovered...only 900 metres away and apparently contemporary to the 5,000-year-old stone circle, as the most exciting find at Stonehenge in a lifetime...

The henge was revealed within a fortnight of an international team beginning fieldwork on the three-year Stonehenge Hidden Landscape project, which aims to survey and map 14 sq km of the sacred landscape around the world's most famous prehistoric monument, which is studded with thousands more monuments from single standing stones to ploughed out burial mounds...

The survey suggests that the henge was on the same alignment as Stonehenge, and comprised a segmented ditch with north-east and south-west entrances, enclosing internal pits up to a metre in diameter believed to have held massive timbers...

For the last fortnight curious tourists have watched scientists trundling what look like large lawnmowers around the nearby field. The geophysical equipment can peer under the surface of the earth using techniques like ground-penetrating radar, revealing structures now invisible to the human eye. The new discovery was hidden in the landscape: nothing remains above ground...

The work of other teams suggests that timber and stone monuments were separate parts of the same Stonehenge story. Professor Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist who has been excavating for many seasons at Durrington Walls, another nearby timber henge site, has already suggested that timber henges and structures were associated with feasting for the living, and stone circles with the realms of the dead.

[SunkenCiv]

An artist's impression of a structure discovered by archaeologists studying the land surrounding Stonehenge, Wiltshire

[SunkenCiv]

thanks for these links in FReepmail:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100722/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_stonehenge
http://www.startribune.com/world/99000329.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr

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[gleeaikin]

I don’t know if the link I am adding is talking about this picture or the other woodhenge. It said something about 24 post holes, and I only count 20 here.

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/archaeologists-discover-stonehenges-timber-twin/19564107?

[wolfman23601]

I saw a good documentary abour Mike Parker Pearson’s work at Stonehenge a few years back. It will be interesting to see his theories on this beyond the blip in the article. Hopefully he has a new documentary made on it. The programming at Midnight on Nat Geo and History has been atrocious of late.

[SunkenCiv]

[deport]

Click your link..... what is it you are intending to link to?