Qualla: Woodhenge https://qualla.com/woodhenge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:21 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/e/woodhenge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Woodhenge https://qualla.com/woodhenge Woodhenge: Introduction https://qualla.com/woodhenge/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Gilbert Insall was not looking for prehistoric monuments when he flew over Wiltshire in 1926. The World War I veteran and Victoria Cross recipient was engaged in an aerial photography survey, but the marks in the chalky soil below told a story invisible from ground level. Circular crop marks revealed concentric rings of postholes where massive timber uprights had once stood. Woodhenge, Stonehenge's timber counterpart, had been hiding in plain sight for four thousand years, waiting for the age of flight to reveal it.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/e/woodhenge-wp/gcne-woodhenge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Woodhenge: Circles in Wood https://qualla.com/woodhenge/ Photo credit Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0. Excavations led by Maud Cunnington in 1926 and 1927 uncovered six concentric oval rings of postholes, the outermost measuring approximately 43 meters across. These were surrounded by a flat-bottomed ditch 2.4 meters deep and up to 12 meters wide, with an outer bank roughly 10 met...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/e/woodhenge-wp/gcne-woodhenge-circles-in-wood.mp3 0:06 2 full Woodhenge: The Living and the Dead https://qualla.com/woodhenge/ Photo credit Neil Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Why build in wood when your neighbors were hauling stones across a hundred miles of countryside? One compelling theory suggests the choice of material was deliberate and deeply meaningful. Wood rots; stone endures. If Stonehenge was a monument to the dead, a place of ancestors an...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/e/woodhenge-wp/gcne-woodhenge-the-living-and-the-dead.mp3 0:06 3 full Woodhenge: A Child in the Center https://qualla.com/woodhenge/ Photo credit Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0. The most haunting discovery lay at the center of the rings. Cunnington found the burial of a young child, approximately three years old, whose skull had been split. The interpretation of this find has been debated ever since. Was this a sacrifice, a foundation offering placed at ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/e/woodhenge-wp/gcne-woodhenge-a-child-in-the-center.mp3 0:06 4 full Woodhenge: Concrete Markers on the Plain https://qualla.com/woodhenge/ Photo credit Psychostevouk at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today, concrete posts mark where the timber uprights once stood, a functional solution that makes the site's layout comprehensible without pretending to recreate what has been lost. Compared to the crowds at Stonehenge, Woodhenge is quiet, often deserted. Visitors who make the sh...

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