Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near Stonehenge

Archaeologists have found an enormous cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, regarded as as much as 4,400 years previous, forward of a constructing growth lower than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge.

The cemetery contains greater than 20 round mounds, referred to as barrows, constructed between 2400 B.C. and 1500 B.C. on a chalk hillside close to Harnham on the outskirts of Salisbury in southwest England.

Aside from the location’s proximity to Stonehenge, there is no proof that the cemetery was linked with the well-known monument. However the barrows have been constructed across the identical time as among the central levels of Stonehenge, in accordance with a assertion from Cotswold Archaeology, a personal agency conducting the excavations.

Many archaeologists now assume Stonehenge, too, was primarily a burial floor, though it additionally might have functioned as a communal gathering place and even a calendar.