# Another henge found at Stonehenge. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574 "2010-07-22T08:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/1 "2010-07-22T08:36:44Z")
BBC [link.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10718522). - The new “henge” is about 900m (2,950ft) from the giant stones Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years. The circular ditch surrounding a smaller circle of deep pits about a metre (3ft) wide has been unearthed at the world-famous site in Wiltshire.\* 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/2 "2010-07-22T08:47:31Z")
Seriously 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/3 "2010-07-22T09:34:04Z")
I didn’t think that henges were all that rare. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/4 "2010-07-22T10:15:53Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I didn’t think that henges were all that rare. They aren’t particularly (depending on how you define “rare”), but finding a [del]new[/del] previously unknown one is. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/5 "2010-07-22T12:05:33Z")
Wasn’t there theories about a wooden ‘hedge’ being close part? Is this another different timber hedge or was it what they were looking for? ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/6 "2010-07-22T12:14:44Z")
What did they find 50 years ago that was more exciting? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/7 "2010-07-22T12:23:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Wasn’t there theories about a wooden ‘hedge’ being close part? Is this another different timber hedge or was it what they were looking for? Not a theory – “Woodhenge” is a reality > **[Woodhenge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhenge)** > > Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury. > Woodhenge was believed to be identified from an aerial photograph taken by pilot and World War I veteran Gilbert Insall, VC, in 1926, during the same period that an aerial archaeology survey of Wessex by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford (Archaeology O... Considering that it was found by aerial survey, I’m surprised that this new one wasn’t found, as well. They’ve been over this area many times and have excavated heavily. I’m really surprised that previous surveys failed to find this new one. And, yeah, stone circles aren’t all that rare\*, but finding a new one – especially this close to the famous and impressive Stonehenge IS a big deal, as they’re certain to be related. \*When we visited Ireland several years back, Pepper Mill wanted to see a stone circle. We passed by a great many of them – but they’re mostly on private land, and the owners don’t want visitors because they don’t want to spring for insurance. The real challenge was finding one we could actually visit. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/8 "2010-07-22T12:34:53Z")
I don’t think Holehenge is going to have the tourists flocking in. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/9 "2010-07-22T13:16:23Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > They aren’t particularly (depending on how you define “rare”), but finding a [del]new[/del] previously unknown one is. Well, not so rare that it’s been less than a year since [the last discovery of a henge close to Stonehenge](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8288567.stm) was announced. With the [Stonehenge Riverside Project](http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/stonehenge) and now the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project, there is a concerted effort being made to locate such structures. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/10 "2010-07-22T13:18:52Z")
Paging Eddie Izzard. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/11 "2010-07-22T13:21:27Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you [Baconhenge](http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/beltane08/baconhenge.htm). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/12 "2010-07-22T14:02:24Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Paging Eddie Izzard. [You called](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFq_nk8pE0)? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/13 "2010-07-22T15:02:56Z")
This may be the same one I read about a while back. I remember thinking at the time “smaller version of Stonehenge eh? well that’ll be Spinal Tap references all round then” and you know what? not a sausage. No-one mentioned it at all. How is that possible? And now you guys have a thread, 11 entries already and no-one mentions Spinal Tap. What the hell is going on? This is not the Straight Dope I know and tolerate, this is not the way the world works, my faith in fellow slackers and geeks is shaken. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/14 "2010-07-22T15:12:32Z")
:eek: This news has me totally unhenged! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/15 "2010-07-22T16:52:24Z")
Oooh, a woodhenge, eh? Luxury! When I was a kid, we had a paperhenge and we were glad to have it, I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/16 "2010-07-22T17:02:46Z")
Ah, so from now on it’s Stonehenges. An err and a spare, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/17 "2010-07-22T17:07:59Z")
So there’s Stonehenge and Woodhenge. But I doubt they’ll find any remains of Strawhenge. It got crushed. By a dwarf. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/18 "2010-07-22T17:11:39Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > What did they find 50 years ago that was more exciting? Well 70 years ago they found [Sutton Hoo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo) ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/19 "2010-07-22T18:13:27Z")
I wonder if they’ll update [Carhenge](http://www.carhenge.com/) to include a corresponding bicyclehenge or something. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574/20 "2010-07-22T18:17:02Z")
So it seems that the ancients were just henging their bets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-henge-found-at-stonehenge/547574.md?page=2)