ARCHÆOLOGY
THE PITS AND THE CONUNDRUM
recent major archæological discovery centres on Neolithic Durrington Walls in Wiltshire. This site is the largest known henge, some 500m (1,640ft) across. (A henge is an enclosure bounded by an earthen bank and internal ditch.) It is 3km (1.8 miles) north-east of Stonehenge, and the River Avon flows past both sites. Since the 1960s, there have been several archæological field projects investigating the site. The numerous foundations of what would have been timber and plaster houses and two timber circles, one larger than the other, were
