Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian

Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian

Circle of huge shafts found near Stonehenge

Archaeologists have discovered a 2-kilometre ring of prehistoric shafts about 3 kilometres from Stonehenge. There are at least 20 of the 4,500-year-old shafts, each more than 5 metres deep and 10 metres in diameter. The startling discovery, in one of the world’s most studied archeological landscapes, comes thanks to modern techniques including ground-penetrating radar. They show “the capacity and desire of Neolithic communities to record their cosmological belief systems in ways, and at a scale, that we had never previously anticipated,” says archaeologist Vincent Gaffney.

The Guardian | 6 min readReference: Internet Archaeology paper