Scientists might have found an earlier version of Stonehenge. It was found close to Stonehenge in the village of Bulford where two holes that had held two wooden poles were lined up with the sun on the longest and shortest days of the year.
These were not the only discoveries made; the original excavations at Bulford, conducted between 2015 and 2017, revealed 48 pits that were radiocarbon dated to around 2950 BC. Artefacts uncovered included pottery, animal bone, worked flints, and charcoal, suggesting that large numbers of people gathered here over a relatively short period of time to celebrate the solar cycle. Phil Harding, from Wessex Archaeology explained in a statement, “I got my pencil and ruler, and I joined them up, and I was aware that they were kind of pointing in the general direction of the sunrise on midsummer.”
One of the pits, which may have been part of a ‘viewing station’ , contained an extremely rare disc–shaped knife, which was deliberately placed here, possibly as a symbolic reference to the sun disc. Dr Fabio Silva, Skyscape Archaeologist at Stone x Sky and the Skyscape Academy, who conducted the analysis that confirmed the alignment, saying that, “This discovery helps us understand Stonehenge not as a singular creation, but as part of a much longer conversation between people, the land, and the sky. The alignment shows that communities were already engaging with both the summer and winter solstices in the Stonehenge landscape, centuries before the sarsen stones were raised. Rather than marking the beginning of a story, Stonehenge now more clearly appears to have emerged from traditions and practices with much deeper roots in this landscape.”
Dr. Jennifer Wexler from English heritage proposed that maybe the prehistoric people who built parts of Stonehenge used to hold meetings or even lived there. She also said that the villagers of Bulford were early farmers and the sun is important to their crops which could explain why the poles and the rocks at Stonehenge lines up with the sun.
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