The slight rise in the ground from the nettles extreme left centre to the conifers at the top of the pic is one bank of the Stonehenge avenue.
How cool is that. ?
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Standing alongside the Avon. BSH is over the bridge and to the left behind the trees.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
A stonehead for scale.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Showing how close the henge is to the river Avon, the gate leads to it’s bank via a small bridge. You really could lose whole days sitting at this location.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Looking across the excavated area of Bluestonehenge.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for guiding us to the site.
By Marcus Smith
First Chance to Hear From the Experts Who Made the Discovery
Archaeologists from Sheffield and other universities have discovered a lost stone circle a mile from Stonehenge, on the west bank of the River Avon.
Read full article: Bluestonehenge: A New Stone Circle Near Stonehenge
Details of henge and stone circle on Pastscape
A Neolithic stone circle and subsequent henge is located at the eastern end of the Stonehenge avenue (Monument Number 858883), beside the river Avon. Excavations in 2009 by the Stonehenge Riverside Project discovered nine pits, or stone settings, making an arc which probably formed part of a larger stone circle measuring perhaps 10m across and thought to have been erected around 3000 BC. Some of the pits contained small bluestone chips which prompted the name `Bluestonehenge?. Charcoal and antler picks were also found. In about 2500 BC the stone circle was dismantled, with the bluestones possibly moved to Stonehenge (Monument Number 219434) and then around 2400BC and a henge ditch, about 25m in diameter, and outer bank were constructed. There do not appear to be any significant solar or lunar orientations within the monument.
