5,000-year-old Bulford site reveals an earlier wooden precursor to Stonehenge
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Archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old, simpler precursor to Stonehenge in Bulford, consisting of two wooden posts positioned 120 meters apart and aligned with summer solstice sunrise and winter solstice sunset. Radiocarbon dating and artefacts like pottery and flint tools suggest prehistoric gatherings, implying the builders of Stonehenge may have been linked to, or based in, Bulford long before the monument’s stones were erected.
- Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site BBC
- Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say archaeologists The Guardian
- Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument just a few miles away AP News
- 'This was a pioneering achievement': Stone Age people put up posts to observe the solstices near Stonehenge long before the stones of sacred site were placed Live Science
- Archaeologists Have Found Stonehenge's Ancestor, And Half Of It Is Under Someone's Living Room IFLScience
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