Woodhenge
Sign in to saveWoodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Woodhenge
- Ancient site.image
- File:Woodhenge 4 DB.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Concrete pillars marking Woodhenge's postholes
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Map showing Woodhenge and Durrington Walls within the Stonehenge section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site
- Ancient site.location
- OS SU150434
- Ancient site.region
- Wiltshire
- Ancient site.type
- henge
- Ancient site.epochs
- Neolithic
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1926–8
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Ben and Maud Cunnington
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
- Ancient site.condition
- feint earthworks, concrete posts
- Ancient site.website
- English Heritage
- Ancient site.designation1
- World Heritage Site
- Ancient site.designation1_number
- 373
- Ancient site.designation1_date
- 1986
- Ancient site.designation2
- Scheduled Monument
- Ancient site.designation2_number
- 1009133
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Date
- Structure
- Relationship with other monuments
- See also
- References
- External links
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.
==Discovery== Woodhenge was believed to be identified from an aerial photograph taken by pilot and World War I veteran Gilbert Insall, VC, in 1926, during the same period that an aerial archaeology survey of Wessex by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford (Archaeology Officer for the Ordnance Survey) was being undertaken. Although some sources attribute the identification of the henge to Crawford, he credits the discovery to Insall.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woodhenge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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