Dr Matt Leivers, senior research manager at Wessex Archaeology, said: “The discovery at Bulford is…

honorthegods: > 5,000-year-old structure unearthed 5km from Stonehenge > >> Dr Matt Leivers, senior research manager at Wessex Archaeology, said: “The discovery at Bulford is fundamental because it’s the earliest example of people building things here that aim directly at the solstice. > "When we talk about the solstice, we’re talking about religion. > "It’s a religious event. > "That’s why it’s so important.” > > Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say archaeologists > >> “What we’re seeing here is the religion of the stone age made manifest in the ground,” said Matt Leivers, the senior research manager at Wessex Archaeology. “Obviously we have no understanding of precisely what any of it meant, but the fact that time and again, over thousands of years, people are coming back to [the Stonehenge landscape] to build and rebuild and mark and remark this set of substantial events – it gives us an indication that this is religion. This is how they are understanding their place in the cosmos, how the universe works, what their deities are. > > “We don’t know what the sun meant to them. We don’t know whether they personified it as a deity. But the amount of effort that’s directed toward marking it and its movements leaves us in no doubt at all that this is a major religious event that’s inscribed over the whole landscape over millennia.”