Timberhenge

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Timberhenge is a Neolithic henge monument located near Salisbury , 900 meters northwest of Stonehenge . The 4,500-year-old complex has a similar ring structure to the stone setting of Stonehenge, but was built from wood. It was built at the time when Stonehenge was reaching its full complexity. The structure was discovered in July 2010.

discovery

An international research group led by Vincent Gaffney in association with English Heritage , the National Trust , the University of Bradford, the Institute of Archeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham and the Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospecting and Virtual Archeology located at the University Vienna carried out research in July 2010 as part of the Stonenhenge Hidden Landscape Project , which was planned to run for a total of three years , with the aim of creating a digital map of the archaeological structures underground of the 14 km² landscape around Stonehenge.

Even before the excavation work began, the archaeologists found a circular depression on July 16, 2010 when they were probing the site with ground penetrating radar and magnetometer .

description

In a three-kilometer-long and one hundred meter-wide trench, under a 1.5-meter-high round burial mound, there is a circular pit with a diameter of 25 meters and several holes in wooden posts, four in a row, polygonally surrounding the mound. These posts measured 70 cm to one meter in diameter. It is unclear whether they were supports for a roof or were " totem-like structures".

The moat probably had two entrances, one to the northeast and another to the southwest, which faced the same orientation as the entrances at Stonehenge.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge BBC News (accessed November 18, 2010)
  2. ↑ A new 'henge' discovered at Stonehenge University of Birmingham (accessed July 17, 2019)
  3. ↑ Maev Kennedy: Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away The Guardian (accessed November 18, 2010)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Langenbach: (July 22, 2010) Second Stonehenge, made of wood Die Presse (accessed November 18, 2010)

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  N , 1 ° 47 ′ 55 ″  W.