Reconstruction of a little known monument at Mount Pleasant, Dorset. The monument lies within one of the Wessex super henges.

First spotted from the air by Sqn Ldr Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, Woodhenge was then excavated by the Cunningtons in the 1926, and then re-excavated as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2005/2006.

This rather good timber circle also has a stone phase - which will be included as soon as we can get our hands on the later dig data.

The South Circle was reconstructed by the Time Team in 2005. Their reconstruction was built on flat ground - this model illustrates the challenges of building the same reconstruction on a slope (that is, the challenges faced by the original builders - not by me. I was never further than 50 feet away from a radiator, bed or fridge when I did the reconstruction).

I'll dig the stone phase out soon, but for the moment we have this intepretation. To be fair there are a number of interpretations, but this is the one I ended up with. I''m not 100% sure, but I think this is the only such monument with a mixture of wood and stone. Although I think Woodhenge might have had a couple of stones. . .

Stanton Drew - second largest stone circle in Britain. In 1997 geophysics revealed nine concentric rings of post holes radiating out from the centre of the main circle. It caused a sensation at the time, and English Heritage, under pressure from the press, rushed out a painted interpretation which was actually someone's idea of how Durrington Walls South Circle might have looked.

Which makes this (as far as I know) the only reconstruction of the actual monument.

From the Wessex Archaeology Youtube Channel;

"Experimental archaeologist Jake Keen demonstrates some of the concepts of iron smelting in a bloomery furnace using techniques believed to have been used during the British Iron Age. The demonstration was part of Wessex Archaeology's annual practical archaeology course."

Click on the play control to watch it here, or around it to go to the relevant YouTube page..

From the Wessex Archaeology Youtube Channel;

"This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method."

Click on the play control to watch it here, or around it to go to the relevant YouTube page.