Posted on 11/22/2016 10:14:10 PM PST by BenLurkin
A vast, mysterious complex dating back more than 5,600 years has been unearthed just 1.5 miles from Stonehenge, British archaeologists have announced.
The finding in Wiltshire reinforces the theory that Stonehenge was a sacred monument and suggests the entire region was ritually active hundreds of years before the enigmatic stone circle was erected.
Found during excavations ahead of the construction of a new Army Service family accommodation, the 650-foot-diameter complex is known as a "causewayed enclosure." It consists of more than 3,100 feet of segmented ditches arranged in two concentric circles.
According to archaeologists at Wessex Archaeology, the remains date back to 3,650 B.C. — around 700 years before Stonehenge was known to be erected.
"These discoveries are changing the way we think about prehistoric Wiltshire and about the Stonehenge landscape in particular," Martin Brown, archaeologist for consultancy company WYG, which is leading the Larkhill housing development project, said in a statement.
"Causewayed enclosures," so-called because their ditches are crossed by multiple causeways, are some of the most puzzling prehistoric monuments.
About 70 of such enclosures are known across England. The newly found complex is the second that has been uncovered in the Stonehenge area.
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Did they find any projects?
A causeway is a raised road or track across low and/or wet ground.
Maybe the ground was a peat bog. These were bog people, or “bog trotters” a shy, retiring folk who spent most of their time drying their feet.
Aliens.
DisneyHenge?
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I thought from the title it was a new settlement of US expats who, due to their NewAgey Earth-Worshipping ways, chose this spot over Canada.
BTW Stonehenge was where their primative NHS conducted "hospice" care for diggers that desired druid assisted suicide.
ROFL!!!!!
Did you copy that from the history books? :)
You’re probably right!
Thanks for this! I enjoy starting the morning off with a bit of humor.
Smell the weed.
Thanks!
Who needs history books? We are condemned to repeat it anyway. The ditch digger culture left their invaluable ditches, that staved off global warming and stopped the rise of the sea levels, and stimulated the stone age economy to us, their descendents. We are indebted to them just as our children are indebted to us!
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