Stonehenge Secrets Uncovered By Underground Map

LONDON: A host of previously unknown monuments have been discovered around the Stonehenge in the most detailed archaeological digital map of the iconic landscape.

The mammoth project - the largest of its kind - reveals a host of previously unknown burial mounds and an immense ritual monument thought to be the biggest of its kind in the world.

Led by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, scientists behind the study say that it will transform our knowledge of this iconic landscape.

Remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys have discovered hundreds of new features which now form part of the most detailed archaeological digital map of the Stonehenge landscape ever produced.

The startling results of the survey include 17 previously unknown ritual monuments dating to the period when Stonehenge achieved its iconic shape.

Dozens of burial mounds have been mapped in minute detail, including a long barrow (a burial mound dating to before Stonehenge) which revealed a massive timber building, probably used for the ritual inhumation of the dead following a complicated sequence of exposure and excarnation (defleshing), and which was finally covered by an earthen mound.

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