Researchers find mysterious wooden pagan circles are actually 800 years older than Stonehenge
Thought Stonehenge was our oldest relic?
Think again.
Mysterious religious rituals were happening WAY before the stone circle was assembled, in a lesser-known prehistoric site some 20 miles down the road in Avebury, Wiltshire.
Experts discovered the circular Palisades – which would have appeared like large wooden enclosures and stretched 250m in diameter – 30 years ago.
They initially believed they were erected at the same time as Stonehenge, at around 2,500 BC.
But new radiocarbon analysis suggests they were built in about 3,300BC - just a few hundred years after the first farms emerged in Britain.
More at source: Researchers find mysterious wooden pagan circles are actually 800 years older than Stonehenge
Thought Stonehenge was our oldest relic?
Think again.
Mysterious religious rituals were happening WAY before the stone circle was assembled, in a lesser-known prehistoric site some 20 miles down the road in Avebury, Wiltshire.
Experts discovered the circular Palisades – which would have appeared like large wooden enclosures and stretched 250m in diameter – 30 years ago.
They initially believed they were erected at the same time as Stonehenge, at around 2,500 BC.
But new radiocarbon analysis suggests they were built in about 3,300BC - just a few hundred years after the first farms emerged in Britain.
More at source: Researchers find mysterious wooden pagan circles are actually 800 years older than Stonehenge
