Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to have been an enormous arrangement of giant wooden timbers, 1,640 feet in diameter, just two miles northeast of Stonehenge, The Independent reports.
Two of the postholes have just been fully excavated — and, at the bottom of one, the prehistoric people who decommissioned and buried the site, formerly occupied by the giant timber circle, had placed one of their tools (a spade made of a cow's shoulder blade) at the bottom of the post hole before it was filled in. […] It was as if the religious "revolutionaries" were trying, quite literally, to bury the past. [The Independent]
The deconstruction of the Durrington Walls circle occurred at practically exactly the same time that the Stonehenge circle was changed from a large diameter of medium-sized stones to the tight circle of gigantic stones that remains today. Two other ancient religious sites — Avebury, an avenue of standing stones, and the large artificial mound at Silbury Hill — were also built during this time, indicating some sort of major religious, and thereby political, change in the ancient world.
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