An “extraordinary” timber circle believed to be thousands of years old and connected to Stonehenge in England has been discovered in the ground in Denmark.
The newly discovered Danish woodhenge appeared to have a similar axis as England’s Stonehenge and Woodhenge, she said.
The circle, which was not visible in aerial photography archives, offered insights into the rituals and social structures of the late stone age and early bronze age, she said.
Britain and Ireland have dozens of henges – round earthen enclosures, some featuring stones or timber posts, such as Stonehenge and nearby Woodhenge – remaining from 3000BC to 2000BC.
Archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle.
