Last yr , investigator announcedthat they had made one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in British account . Just 3   kilometers ( 2 mi ) from the human beings notable monument of Stonehenge , they uncovered grounds that there had once been another henge , but this one was 500 meters ( 1,640 feet ) wide . love as the Durrington Walls “ Superhenge”,it now seemsthat rather than being build out of Harlan Stone like its small full cousin , this jumbo memorial may have been build from wood .

construct 4,500 age ago , the superhenge is thought to be the largest Neolithic structure ever found in Britain , but after carrying out some explorative digs , the investigator are discovering that it is not quite what they initially thought . During the first scans of the monolithic internet site , which is surrounded by a bank of globe , they think they found denotation that there were gem still lying on the ground , and assumed that they must once have been standing .

“ The answer from the radar was so good that the squad thought they were dealing with a whole serial of stone lying on their side , bury beneath the bank of this ancient earthwork , ” Dr Nicola Snashall , an archeologist for the National Trust , toldBBC News . " What we ’ve get a line are that there are two tremendous pits for timber Post . They have obtain ramps at the English to dispirited posts into . ”

It seems that rather than being constructed from Edward Durell Stone , the original superhenge may have been built out of timber , and then seemingly hastily deconstruct , leave only the heavy holes behind . The postal service holes were then back - filled with chalk junk , and the massive bank that now surround the henge build up around it . Even more challenging is the fact that it appears as if the tremendous wooden repository was never to the full completed before it was torn down and fill up in .

What may have take those who began   the original monument , think to have been the same the great unwashed who raised Stonehenge , to have partly work up and then destroyed it is still unnamed . One suggestion , however , is that the construction of the superhenge took place during an era of especially intense religious and political turmoil , and that a dramatic teddy in faith at the prison term may have halted its full construction and lead to its rapid demolition .

More excavations are presently planned , and hopefully with it more clues may be unearthed .