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  • Houses Found Buried Beneath Stonehenge Site

    01/30/2007 12:55:42 PM PST · by RDTF · 33 replies · 1,411+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | January 30, 2007 | Marc Kaufman
    New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected. The finding strongly suggests that the monument and the settlement nearby were a center for ceremonial activities, with Stonehenge likely a burial site while other nearby circular earthen "henges" were areas for feasts and festivals. The houses found buried beneath the grounds of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site are the first of their kind from that late Stone Age period in Britain,...