A short walk from Stonehenge, the military owns land at Larkhill. During preparations for new army buildings in 2018, an ancient enclosure was unearthed. To be more exact, it was a causewayed enclosure. Such places are believed to be where ancient trade and meetings occurred.
Nine wooden posts threw some light on the kind of people who stayed at the site. The posts’ positions were a replica of Stonehenge’s stone ring. This suggested that Larkhill was a kind of design hub to overhaul the famous temple, which also started out as a humble ring of timber posts.
The initial version of Stonehenge was erected around 3000 BC, but archaeologists believe that the enclosure predates it by six or seven centuries. It likely served as the campsite of the architects when the first stones were brought in around 2500 BC.
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