Archaeologists in Aars, Denmark just uncovered a 4,000-year-old ritual site that was once like the wooden version of Stonehenge. Being called "Woodhenge," this circular site spanned nearly 100 ...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Monument 'Woodhenge,' Aren't Sure if it Was a Sauna or for Cremating Human Remains Published Jan 03, 2018 at 10:14 AM EST Wooden posts forming an ancient henge in ...

Constructed in the late Neolithic to Bronze Age, the site at Little Catwick Quarry near Hornsea could have been home to ritual cremations or even as a sauna.

The site was likely used as a ritual ground and gathering place, and the wood posts may have been aligned with the Sun as the stones in Stonehenge were. ... Woodhenge. “It was an ...

Its prehistoric builders may have used it as a ritual site. Skip to main content. ... has its own "Woodhenge," which was built around 2500 B.C.E. Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4 ...

Woodhenge: Is this one of the ... Mapped: The site, ringed, ... Team leader Professor Vince Gaffney of Birmingham University said the ritual monument had been built about 5,000 years ago, ...

He added that the site could have been used for ritual cremations, noting that if this was the case, “it was a meeting place, where all the little groups could come together".

However, he also suggested that the site could have been used for ritual cremations. “In this case it was ritual, it was a meeting place, where all the little groups could come together,” he said.

At the Denmark site, researchers are now looking for other buried artefacts like flint arrowheads and daggers to better understand the people who built the “woodhenge”.

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A tomb for an unknown child sits at the heart of the site of Woodhenge, though their bones were tragically lost during The Blitz in World War 2. By Joel Day. 12:00, Sat, Dec 16, 2023.