The Lost Solstice Monument That Predates Stonehenge By 500 Years

失落于巨石阵之前500年的冬至纪念碑

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2026-06-18

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Episode 378 A prototype Stonehenge has been discovered - an even older structure that may have been a first attempt at building the famous megalithic calendar.  A team led by archaeologist Phil Harding, best-known for the TV series ‘Time Team’, discovered a range of artefacts at a site near Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.  Excavations at Bulford uncovered pottery, animal bones, flints - and something even more telling. Signs of a structure of wooden poles were found, that line up directly with the summer solstice sun. Phil Harding joins Rowan Hooper and Penny Sarchet to discuss what he found and why it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Image Credits: Wessex Archaeology - www.wessexarch.co.uk  Marijane Porter Dr Fabio Silva garethwiscombe, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Andrew Dunn, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Now it's almost the summer solstice and we love stories that combine archaeology astronomy and indigenous knowledge

  • so what what does those three things put them in a pot and what do we get?

  • Stonehenge!

  • We love Stonehenge!

  • For those who don't know, for some reason, Stonehenge was built 4,000, 5,000 years ago.

  • It's a ring of massive standing stones surrounded by an earth bank and ditch in the southwest of England.

  • And it's associated with the summer solstice, as you say, also the winter solstice,

  • because the stones align with the sun setting and rising at these times.

  • Yeah, so there's been loads of theories about what it is, and I think the current

  • one is that it's this ancient solar calendar.

  • But this week, archaeologists discovered evidence of an even older structure

  • that might have been served as a prototype of Stonehenge.