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Woodhenge

Near Amesbury, Wiltshire

A lost circle made of timber, found from the air in 1926.

Woodhenge was spotted from an aeroplane in 1926 by Squadron Leader Gilbert Insall, who saw rings of dark spots in a crop field. Digging revealed six rings of post holes for great timber posts, long since rotted away.

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When
c. 2500 BC
Where
51.1893, -1.7860
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

English Heritage, free. Combine with Durrington Walls next door.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

About three kilometres north-east of Stonehenge lies Durrington Walls, a henge about 500 metres across. Its ditch was around 5.5 metres deep. People lived here for about 500 years.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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