Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via “Crop Circles”
Bronze Age burial mounds (Credit: Damian Grady/ English Heritage)
It will be interesting if anything is discovered in these new tombs which are reportedly 1000 years older than Stonehenge. The tombs have yet to be excavated but experts are claiming that they likely contain chambers with human remains from the Bronze Age (roughly 2000 to 700 B.C. in Britain).
Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.
A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among “Britain’s first architecture,” according to archaeologist Helen Wickstead, leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project.
For such a site to have lain hidden for so long is “completely amazing,” said Wickstead, of Kingston University in London.
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3 Responses to “Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via “Crop Circles””
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M. Joseph Smith on June 16th, 2009
For the last several years I have been using Google Earth and writing down Lat and Long concerning hundreds of sites like this in England (as well as other countries). I wrote the Royal Museum about them and I never heard back, I figured they did not care about such sites.
brodymaddox on June 17th, 2009
Probably didn't want to have to share the find. Everyone seems very protective in this field.
Will on September 14th, 2011
That’s 2 cleevr by half and 2×2 clever 4 me. Thanks!