Near Bulford, five kilometres from Stonehenge, traces of a structure some five thousand years old have been found

Near Bulford, five kilometres from Stonehenge, traces of a structure some five thousand years old have been found. Two post holes, one might say, and one would hardly have blamed anyone for paying them no attention, yet they were found, 120 metres apart and about a metre deep. But Phil Harding, a veteran of British field archaeology from the television series Time Team, plotted the points on a plan and drew a line between them, which fell exactly along the axis of the summer and winter solstices. In a separate pit on the same axis lay a disc-shaped flint knife, which may have represented the sun. The Bulford structure, still unidentified, was raised at about the same time as the first phase of Stonehenge was laid out, and the people who gathered at the Bulford posts cannot have been unaware of the great building project next door. Nobody connects these monuments directly, although the conclusion suggests itself that there was a system in their treatment of the solstice axes