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Modern pillars marking the post-holes of Woodhenge, facing northwards. Timber circles in the British Isles date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.The posts themselves have long since disappeared and the sites are identified from the rings of postholes that they stood in. Aerial photography and geophysical survey have led to the discovery of increasing numbers of the features.
The Cahokia Woodhenge was a series of large timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville, Illinois, United States.
Temple Wood site with southern circle in foreground. Temple Wood (or Half Moon Wood) is an ancient site located in Kilmartin Glen, near Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. The site includes two circles (north and south). The southern circle contains a ring of 13 standing stones about 12 metres (40 feet) in diameter. In the past it may have had 22 stones.
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Stonehenge , in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury .
Avebury, Neolithic henge and stone circles. Ballymeanoch, Neolithic henge with a small burial cairn as well as standing stones and stone circles. The Bull Ring, Neolithic Class II henge. Catholme ceremonial complex, Neolithic henge enclosure, timber circle and pit alignments; Castle Dykes Henge, Neolithic Class I henge.
The inner stone circle was encompassed by six concentric rings of post holes, marking where timber posts had once stood. [ 5 ] The first stage of activity at the site, some time around 3000 BCE, consisted of a ring of eight wooden posts 4.5 metres (15 ft) across, with a central post, presumed to be a round hut. [ 18 ]
Henges sometimes, but by no means always, featured stone or timber circles, and circle henge is sometimes used to describe these structures. The three largest stone circles in Britain ( Avebury , the Great Circle at Stanton Drew stone circles , and the Ring of Brodgar ) are each within a henge.
A large timber post lay on this orientation, about as far away from the circle as the Heelstone is from Stonehenge. [15] At a similar time, but probably after the circle and avenue were constructed, a village began to develop around the site. Excavations have revealed seven Neolithic house floors on the eastern side of the bank.