And we thought the Rolling Stones were old THOUSANDS gather on Salisbury Plain to celebrate the solstice at Stonehenge every summer, when the prehistoric standing stones align with the rising sun as they have done for over 4,500 years. Yet for ancient British revellers this most famous "henge"--a circular basin surrounded by a ditch and bank on its circumference--may well have played second fiddle to a supersized cousin next door. Just 3km to the north-east lies Durrington Walls, a 500-metre-wid...
And we thought the Rolling Stones were old THOUSANDS gather on Salisbury Plain to celebrate the solstice at Stonehenge every summer, when the prehistoric standing stones align with the rising sun as they have done for over 4,500 years. Yet for ancient British revellers this most famous "henge"--a circular basin surrounded by a ditch and bank on its circumference--may well have played second fiddle to a supersized cousin next door. Just 3km to the north-east lies Durrington Walls, a 500-metre-wid...
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