Hengeworld

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In November 1997 English Heritage announced the discovery of a vast prehistoric temple in Somerset. The extraordinary wooden rings at Stanton Drew are the most recent & biggest of a series of remarkable discoveries that have transformed the way archaeologists think of the great monuments in the region including Stonehenge & Avebury. The results of these discoveries have not been published outside academic journals & no one has considered the wider implications of these finds. Here Mike Pitts who has worked as an archaeologist at Avebury, & has access to the unpublished English Heritage files, asks what sort of people designed & built these extraordinary structures
- the biggest in Britain until the arrival of medieval cathedrals. Using computer reconstructions he shows what they looked like
- & asks what they are for. This is the story of the discovery of a lost civilisation that spanned five centuries, a civilisation that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern Engl&.