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Archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old 'proto-Stonehenge' just a few miles from the famous monument

The structure consisted of two wooden posts that aligned precisely with the summer sunrise and winter sunset, suggesting ancient Britons were already tracking the Sun before the creation of Stonehenge.

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00:32When I drew the line and extended it out on both sides, I realized that those alignments were parallel.
00:39In other words, the angle off of the direct north was exactly the same at my site as it is
00:46at Stonehenge.
00:48And then I began to think that actually I'd found a solstitial alignment.
01:04Nobody has actually found an alignment that so accurately captures the sunrise on the horizon in midsummer and the sunset
01:14on the horizon of midwinter.
01:16This is the first time, or one of the, yes, let's go the first time, certainly in Britain, that arguably
01:24that this has happened.
01:25How can I not get a buzz from that?
01:30That's true.
01:40How can I not seren dependence on the lights?
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