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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 .
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.
A posthole was found in the pit, indicating that a wooden post had been placed in the hole for a time before being replaced by the upright stone. [2] Around 2000 BC the Cuckoo Stone became the focus for several nearby cremation burials. [2] In the Roman era a rectangular building was constructed southwest of the Cuckoo Stone. [2]
Modern pillars marking the post-holes of Woodhenge, facing northwards. Timber circles in the British Isles date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.The posts themselves have long since disappeared and the sites are identified from the rings of postholes that they stood in. Aerial photography and geophysical survey have led to the discovery of increasing numbers of the features.
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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]
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 The Sanctuary, Avebury Plan of Knap Hill Camp by Cunnington, 1912. In 1912, Cunnington worked with her husband Ben to supervise the re-erection of the last standing stone at Beckhampton Cove at Avebury, which had fallen the previous year. While working at the Beckhamptom Cove site, she discovered the skeleton of a "middle-aged man ...