**Stop Press** Durrington Walls ‘Superhenge’ five times larger than Stonehenge
Posted On: Sep 7th, 2015 at 13:54
**STOP PRESS**
England
I don’t normally post twice in the same day, but news has just been released of the completion of the five-year ground mapping project of the area around Stonehenge. The results are nothing more than astonishing.
The site of Durrington Walls, less than two miles from Stonehenge, has been known about for a long time, but what has come to light is that at least a part of the site was surrounded by huge standing stones. Around a hundred have been located beneath the ground, most of them lying down and covered with earth.
The site is five times larger than the entire area of Stonehenge, making it the largest Neolithic monument ever found in Britain.
There is no doubt that this structure, dating to 4,500 years ago, was a part of the wider Stonehenge area and now needs to be taken into consideration when trying to decipher the meaning of the world’s most famous stone circle. What it basically means is all the theories of Stonehenge can finally be put to bed and the thinking behind the intention of the site needs to start again. Stonehenge, it seems, was just a small part of a much larger structure, and it appears that all the theories put forward so far have been in vain. It’s a bit like trying to figure out what a clock is used for but only having the alarm bell to decipher its use.
There is no doubt, however, that there is a lot more still to be found, and it will probably be another generation or two before we know the full extent of the site and, thus, any real answers to its purpose.
