An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site.
Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge. The archaeological team found evidence for a monumental henge that dates to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age; after the site was abandoned, its interior was reoccupied around the 7th century. By the 12th century, the abbots of Crowland build a large hall and chapel complex on the site, which still stand today.
The site “offers an exceptional case study of an evolving sacred landscape in a deep-time perspective, culminating in its redevelopment by the Anglo-Norman monastery to claim legitimacy from illustrious saintly forebears,” they added. That’s not entirely a surprise; sites that develop some kind of ceremonial importance often retain that importance even as they change shape. In 2021, a different team of researchers found that Stonehenge probably started as an entirely different henge.
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