Simpler, older Sun-aligned structure discovered near Stonehenge

Archaeologists have found a 5,000-year-old site with two wooden posts that lined up with the solstices, predating Stonehenge by 500 years.

• The structure, discovered in Bulford about 3 miles from Stonehenge, consisted of two wooden posts 120 metres apart that aligned with summer sunrise and winter sunset.
• Radiocarbon dating of artefacts including pottery, flint tools, and animal bone placed the site at roughly 5,000 years old, the team from Wessex Archaeology said.
• Archaeoastronomer Fabio Silva stated that after reconstructing the sky of 5,000 years ago, the alignment with the solstices was "exactly, exactly right."
• English Heritage curator Jennifer Wexler said the Bulford discovery suggests the people who built the first stages of Stonehenge may have lived or gathered there seasonally.