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In particular, the project examined the relationship between the stones and surrounding monuments and features, including the River Avon, Durrington Walls, the Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge, burial mounds, and nearby standing stones. The project involved a substantial amount of fieldwork and ran from 2003 to 2009.
The site was excavated in 2007 as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. [4] The excavations revealed the pit in which the stone once sat immediately to the west. [2] The stone was originally a natural feature, which sometime before 2000 BC, was placed in an upright position. [2]
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Stonehenge , in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury .
The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.
A triple woodhenge constructed about two millennia ago at the Fort Ancient Earthworks in Ohio. Mounds State Park: Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring prehistoric Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the Adena people and apparently also used by later Hopewell inhabitants. Newark Earthworks
The Stonehenge Riverside Project excavated the ditch once more in 2008. In 1979 the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments recommended that the barrow should be better protected, by diverting the bridleway around it and clearing the woodland between it and the cursus, [ 8 ] but the recommendation has yet to be implemented.
Woodhenge, sculpture by landlord, Charlie Newman The landlord of the Square and Compass, Charlie Newman, built a tree trunk sculpture known as Woodhenge , in the field near the public house. The trunks were originally planned to be used for firewood, [ 12 ] before Newman built the structure, which was complete in time for the summer solstice in ...
Parker Pearson was born in 1957, in Wantage, Berkshire. [4] [5] He would later inform interviewers that he first took an interest in the past when searching for fossils in his father's driveway gravel aged 4, extending that interest into the human past aged 6 when he read a library book entitled Fun with Archaeology. [6]