An exciting new find on the west bank of the River Avon, has been dubbed "Bluestonehenge" after the color of the 25 Welsh stones of which it was once made. Excavations by the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which is made up of a consortium of university teams and directed by Mike Parker Pearson from the University of Sheffield, revealed the new stone circle is 10m (33 ft) in diameter and surrounded by a henge — a ditch with an external bank.
Although the stones at the site of the new discovery were removed thousands of years ago, the sizes of the holes in which they stood indicate that this was a circle of bluestones, brought from the Preseli mountains of Wales, 150 miles away. These standing stones marked the end of the Avenue that leads from the River Avon to Stonehenge, a 1.75-mile long (2.8km) processional route constructed at the end of the Stone Age.
The outer henge around the stones was built around 2400 BC, but arrowheads found in the stone circle indicate that the stones were put up as much as 500 years earlier — they were dragged from Wales to Wiltshire 5,000 years ago.
Posted by Craig Shaw 
Posted by Craig Shaw 