Woodhenges in Northwest Europe

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Monumental Surveys: New Insights from Landscape-Scale Geophysics" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Circles, variously of wood and stone, are a major feature of the ceremonial centres dating to the third and early second millennia BC in northwest Europe. Some, such as Stonehenge, are very well known and complicated in their design and layout. Many others are more modest in scale and form. Geophysical surveys and development led archaeology have revealed the existence of many more timber circles than once thought, complementing the distribution of the more durable stone circles. Here we investigate the range of structures represented and their place within extended ceremonial centres in Britain and beyond.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Monumental Surveys: New Insights from Landscape-Scale Geophysics   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24641