A further circular monument was discovered at Stonehenge

London - Archaeologists near the British prehistoric stone monument Stonehenge have discovered another circular monument. As the project leader told Reuters today, the circular area is located just under a kilometer from the world-famous archaeological site and is estimated to be approximately the same age. The scientists discovered it using virtual landscape surveying technology.
    "This find is remarkable," said Vince Gaffney, a professor of archaeology at the University of Birmingham, who is also leading the international project. "It will completely change our current view of the landscape around Stonehenge."
    The newly discovered circular monument is a bank with a diameter of 25 meters and about a meter-wide pits likely dug to hold wooden posts. Its stone relative, Stonehenge, is on average five meters larger. Scientists believe that both were created approximately at the same time, around 2000 to 4000 years ago.
    Archaeologists are studying the area using virtual terrain mapping technology. They announced the discovery just two weeks after the start of the international landscape mapping project.
    "We will not be conducting excavations. It is virtual digging. We couldn't dig at this scale anyway," said Gaffney, who believes that more similar discoveries can be expected during the three-year project. "Stonehenge is not just on its own. There is a huge virtual landscape," that can be explored, he added.
    In addition to British universities in Birmingham and Bradford, the project also involves the Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Research and Virtual Archaeology.