STONEHENGE is under grave threat from 'destructive' upgrade work to the nearby A303 - despite government plans to spend £35million on an archeological team to preserve and record the site. Richard Bates, of the University of St. Andrews School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the findings -- made with remote sensing and sampling — provided "an insight to the past that shows an even more complex society than we could ever imagine.”The new find is at Durrington Walls, the site of a Neolithic village about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Stonehenge,Experts from a group of British universities led by the University of Bradford say the site consists of at least 20 huge shafts, more than 10 meters (32 feet) in diameter and 5 meters (16 feet) deep, forming a circle more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter.“When these pits were first noted it was thought they might be natural features — solution hollows in the chalk,” he said. Stonehenge festival 2020 informatie op Festivalinfo: programma, line-up, ticket informatie, reisbeschrijving, links en nieuws They had previously been dismissed as natural sinkholes and dew ponds. ... Chris Grayling gives go-ahead to road tunnel under Stonehenge. Tickets are available to book now. To the astonishment of archaeologists, a series of vast shafts – each more than five metres deep and up to 20 metres across – were found to have been aligned to form a circle 1.2 miles in diameter.The discovery was made possible by new technology that is yet to play a significant role in our understanding of this extraordinary ancient landscape.The neolithic structure that has been discovered appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area, because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is placed at its centre.Derek Parody, Highways England project director for the A303 Stonehenge scheme, said: “The latest finds are in the north-east of the world heritage site, well outside the scheme boundary and at its closest point half a kilometre north of the planned A303 upgrade. I feel we should consider the implication of these discoveries before a tragic loss ensues.”Parker Pearson said: “Vince and his team have identified various other shafts that may be part of other formations further over to the west, even nearer Stonehenge. Stonehenge would benefit from 'putting A303 into a tunnel' In our meticulous planning for the proposed route, we have used ground-penetrating radar as part of our geophysical survey strategy, to Historic England-required standards, and we have also supplemented this with a wealth of trial trenching and test pits to further evidence our results.”While Highways England has argued that its plan to improve the A303 with a tunnel will cut congestion, Parker Pearson said: “The expenses per mile are mind-boggling. Archaeologists working at Stonehenge are said to be “astonished” after discovering the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain, a circle of deep underground passages, dating back some 4,500 years.

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