Human Interest

Remarkable new archaeological discoveries are beginning to suggest that Stonehenge was built at a time of particularly intense religious and political rivalry. Just two miles north-east of the World Heritage site, at an important archaeological complex known as Durrington Walls, archaeologists have just discovered what appears to have been a vast 500-metre diameter circle of giant timber posts. The find is of international significance.

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A group of archaeologists from University College London have demonstrated that it might not have been that hard to construct Stonehenge by hand, without heavy construction equipment, after all. While there are those who have pointed to the large circle of massively heavy bluestone blocks, and that they were quarried some 140 miles away in …

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Archaeologists have discovered evidence showing that 7,000 years ago a Mesolithic man travelled 250 miles from York to the Stonehenge site in Wiltshire, and he brought his dog with him. The evidence, a dog’s tooth, was unearthed at the site known as Blick Mead, which lies inside the boundaries of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. …

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