A timber structure aligned precisely with the summer and winter solstices was set up near Stonehenge 500 years before the great stone monument in Wiltshire was built, archaeologists have discovered.
The finding, made by a team from Wessex Archaeology on what is now an Army housing estate at Bulford, suggests the structure might have been an early prototype for the alignment of Stonehenge’s huge stones.
Two tall wooden poles were erected 120 metres apart on the site 5km from Stonehenge in a line that pointed at the rising sun during the summer solstice around June 21 and, in the opposite direction, at the setting sun during the winter solstice around December 21.
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