'Astonishing' giant circle of pits found near Stonehenge

Among Britain’s most recognisable landmarks, the standing stones at Stonehenge draw tourists from around the world as well as people searching for spiritual connections with the past. Their exact purpose remains unknown to scientists.

The site is located about 3.2 km northeast of Stonehenge and evidence suggests the pits date back to the same period, some 4,500 years ago. “This astonishing discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs of our Neolithic ancestors,” he said. The discovery was made without the need for excavations, using remote sensing technology and sampling.The archaeologists said the precise and sophisticated way in which the pits were positioned suggests that the early inhabitants of Britain used a tally or counting system to track pacing across long distances.

I wonder how 'scientists' found that its 'ritualistic' just from layout ... is everything what is orginized ritualistic? (like I see there some sort of guardposts :) )

Drug smuggling?

So we have Stonehenge and Woodhenge. All we need is Strawhenge and eddieizzard ‘s joke is a reality.

Today I learned here are several henges.

it was a calendar...a big one..

It looks like a boob. Ancient middle schoolers.

What I wonder always is how did they cut out stone they had no iron some early Bronze. They had no transports as we know, how did they cut and transported this while we at this moment in time would need machinery to get the same result. Explanations given do not make sense.

$20 says those pits were used as part of some ancient septic system.

All these years later and the imprints of my landing gear are still there! Apart from where I knocked over a few of those stones I thought there would be no trace by now.

Could those be circle encompassment sighting line markers to the sun or stars on the horizon in relation to the central Stonehenge hub setup?

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incredibly this is cazcapgroup.com saying beer for breakfast...

LHC

Stonehenge seems to be a core to larger rings around it.

I've always been fascinated by Stonehinge. I want to know more. Curious if these tunnels may have been some sort of transport system

I love this mysteries behind Stonehenge

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the same discovery than five years ago. And five years before that. And.... I've been reading about the same discovery since 1995

moyastwit

GeromanAT Fascinating

How about stonehence?

So they tried to make a big circle - gave up and made a small circle. Lazy druids.

It's a calendar people. Get over it.

It's where people practiced social distancing a plague or two ago

They probably drank water then too.

They probably need to pull it all down on the off-chance slave labour was used to build them.

Probably latrines.

Neat!.👍💕

Oh wow! Big stones in a circle and pits!

NOPE NOT THIS YEAR SATAN

Now this type of news I like!

Same.

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