News.com.au: OMINOUS. Forbidding. Mystical. But, now, everything we think we know about the ancient landmark Stonehenge may be wrong. New clues reveal it may have been a busy, bustling hive of activity. Previously it was thought to be a temple of the dead, accessed once or twice a year by a solemn procession winding its way along the River Avon and Salisbury Plain from a woodhenge — a nearby “temple of life”.
Stonehenge was supposed to be a serene place. A magical place. But it may not have always been so. And it certainly isn’t now (with the adjoining highway, carpark and visitor centre). A recent extensive survey of the fields around the 4000-year-old iconic standing stones has uncovered 15 possible new Neolithic structures. ‘Possible’ because they haven’t been excavated yet.
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