Neolithic monument found near Stonehenge
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The buried remains of a mysterious giant prehistoric monument have been discovered close to Britain’s famous Stonehenge heritage site, archeologists said yesterday.
Up to 90 standing stones, some originally measuring 4.5 meters and dating back some 4,500 years, are believed to have been buried under a bank of earth and remained hidden for millenia.
Archeologists using multi-sensor technologies discovered the “C-shaped arena” at Durrington Walls — a so-called “superhenge” located less than 3 kilometers from Stonehenge, in southwestern England.
“Durrington Walls is an immense monument and up till this point we thought it was merely a large bank and ditched enclosure, but underneath that massive monument is another monument,” Vincent Gaffney told the BBC.
The discovery was made by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, an international collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the Vienna-based Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archeological Prospection and Virtual Archeology.
The newly discovered stones, which have yet to be excavated, are thought to have been toppled over, with the bank of the later Durrington Walls henge built over them.
The neolithic henge, or monument, which is a part of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, is one of the largest known henges, measuring 500 meters in diameter and more than 1.5km in circumference.
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