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Archaeologists uncovered two pits in Bulford, 3 miles east of Stonehenge, dating to around 3000 BCE and predating the stones by about 500 years; the pits likely contained wooden posts aligned with the summer and winter solstices, suggesting an earlier ceremonial site with pottery, flint tools and animal bones indicating gatherings and astronomical knowledge.
Archaeologists in Wiltshire have uncovered a 5,000-year-old wooden structure at Bulford that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. Two wooden poles stood 120 meters apart and align with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, suggesting early astronomical knowledge. Radiocarbon dating places the site about 5,000 years old, roughly 500 years before Stonehenge’s stones were erected. Artifacts such as pottery, bone, charcoal, flints, and a rare disc-shaped knife hint at communal solstice gatherings within a broader Neolithic landscape around Stonehenge.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old, solstice-aligned monument at Bulford near Stonehenge, dated to about 3000 BC. The two wooden posts, 120 metres apart, with surrounding pits, appear to have marked the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, suggesting an early prototype for Stonehenge’s solar alignments. A nearby disc-shaped flint knife may symbolize the sun, and radiocarbon dating places the structure at 2950 BC, highlighting a long-standing religious focus on solstices in the Wiltshire landscape.