Stonehenge prototype discovered three miles from famous site

Archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old solstice-aligned monument near Bulford, Wiltshire, that appears to be a structural predecessor to Stonehenge itself, with two timber posts precisely aligned to the summer and winter solstices. Wessex Archaeology describes it as a once-in-a-lifetime find, carbon-dated to around 3,000 BCE — roughly contemporaneous with the earliest phases of the world heritage site just 5km away.