Archaeologists find possible Stonehenge prototype near Bulford (opens in new tab)

Wessex Archaeology said archaeologists identified a 5,000-year-old wooden monument at Bulford, about 5 km (3 miles) from Stonehenge in Wiltshire, that may have served as an early model for Stonehenge’s later solar alignment. The structure consisted of two wooden posts set 120 metres apart and aligned with the sunrise at the summer solstice and sunset at the winter solstice. The Bulford site has been carbon-dated to around 3000BC, around the time of Stonehenge’s earliest construction phase and...