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“Stonehenge has got some phases itself, but it’s generally a middle to late Neolithic monument. In that same landscape, there was already what we call a ‘monument complex’ – a cluster of important monuments – by the early Neolithic period, around 1000 years before Stonehenge was built. In that period we see long barrows for burial of the dead, and enclosures that look like temporary gathering places or settlements. And there are monuments called cursus monuments, which are great big rectangular enclosures. There are two of them in the Stonehenge landscape. We don’t really understand what they are. Lots of people say that Stonehenge is a complete mystery. It’s not; it’s really well studied.” Read more...
Susan Greaney, Historian
