AIRMAN LOCATES DRUIDIC REMAINS
MARKS OF OLDER STONEHENGE DISCOVERED BY CAMERA IN SOUTH BRITAIN. LONDON, Feb. 19. Another and older Stonehenge, famous Druidical group of monoliths on Salisbury Plain, was among the discoveries brought to the notice of the archaeological exhibition opened, at University College here. This has been found by aerial photography at Woodhenge, near Durrington, Wiltshire’!*"'' The circular bank and ditch, when viewed from the air, proved to have, spots in it. Subsequent excavation showed these spots to be filled up which once held timber uprights, also ancient pottery unlike any hitherto found in Britain. Other finds enabled the picture , to be completed, which now- shows what. is claimed t* be a “prototype forerunner of Stonehenge.” Another exhibit show-s the footprints of a Roman dog, w'hich frisked over the newly made tiling before dry 2000 years ago, also the footprints of an indignant workman who chased the dog away.
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Shannon News, 12 April 1929, Page 3
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