Series of massive pits appears to have encircled the known site of Durrington Walls, just a couple miles from Stonehenge, between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.

Durrington Walls is the brown circle in the middle, while Woodhenge is the much smaller one just to the left of it. The newly discovered shafts are marked as yellow dots, forming a ring around the ...

News of Durrington Walls exploded across the world a year ago after geophysical scans peered under the soil of a 500m wide circular mound found just 3km from Stonehenge in Salisbury.

On this 3-mile walk, you’ll explore the secrets of Durrington Walls - once home to the builders of Stonehenge - and discover 6,000 years of hidden history with National Trust’s landscape guides.

A dig at Durrington Walls has shown there were no standing stones at the site A 4,500-year-old monument experts thought was "another Stonehenge" is now understood to have not contained any ...

And, he thinks, maybe celebrations were going on all the time at Durrington Walls that were connected to Stonehenge. "There's lots of stuff going on — just look at any big ceremonial structure.

And, he thinks, maybe celebrations were going on all the time at Durrington Walls that were connected to Stonehenge. "There's lots of stuff going on — just look at any big ceremonial structure.

At Durrington Walls, an already-established archaeological site, archeologists found nearly 100 stones that make up a ritual arena from around 4,500 years ago. Produced by Emma Fierberg.

The Durrington Walls monument, which is about 480m (1,500 ft) across, is just under two miles (3km) from the famous Stonehenge site in Wiltshire.

So what made Durrington Walls such a hot destination? At one point, the town was perhaps one of the largest settlements in Neolithic Britain, with as many as 1,000 houses and maybe thousands of people ...