Big wooden circle discovered, just few kilometres away from Stonehenge

Last year the main pages of the mediums were inundated with discovering on giant circle structure, about five times bigger than Stonehenge, just 3.2 kilometres on north-east from Stonehenge - that the scientists called it "Super Stonehenge".

In that time, the scientists discovered something that they considered to be 90 stone monoliths buried Neolitic settlement called "Durington Walls", but further researches showed that the huge "Super Stonehenge" is actually made of wood. For some reason it was quickly buried.

Scientists are still filling in the gaps, but consider that this excavation could be evidence of violent religious and political climate at the time of construction - about 4,500 years ago.

Superhenge for first time was discovered with geophysical surveying instead of a real excavation, which proved huge monoliths buried in a circular structure about 500 meters in diameter. The picture below is presented as it might seem.

But now, after having made a real excavations, they have not found any evidence of stone slabs, but they found some 120 large pits that were probably placed trees. Till now are excavated only two containing evidence of trees that have been vertically raised and removed at some stage of construction.

What is particularly surprising about the locality is that the circle was never completed, because it seems that shortly before it was ended, someone uprooted the wooden columns and hastily buried the holes. The circular structure that today can be seen seems to have been built to bury it underneath, that suggests a new mode that literally wanted to bury the past.

Archaeologists also found a tool - a shovel that was buried at the bottom of the hole.

Further researches are needed, and the excavation of a much larger number of such pits for researchers to be able to submit their hypothesis about what they think that really happened. It's possible that the locality reflect the passage of Great Britain from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age.

The stone blocks are found in Neolithic locality known as Darlington walls and date back more than 4,500 years ago and they are found buried less than a meter in the ground. Scientists in the UK currently use scanning technology to create an underground map of the area.

Till now there are identified 30 stones that reach up to 4.5 m. together with fragments or bases in 60 other stones. Considering the size, archaeologists called this Super Stonehenge area, suggesting that it could be five times larger than Stonehenge. They believe that was built at the same time as Stonehenge, and perhaps earlier.

The results are published in the British Science Festival at the University of Bradford.