New Stonehenge discovery: Huge "pit structure" presents another Neolithic mystery. While the nature of the site is shrouded in mystery, there's evidence that it may have remained important to humans in the region for thousands of years.Be in the know. It’s a tunnel that’s basically 2.9km long and it’s going to cost £1.6bn.“Colleagues who work in that business say, ‘You might as well add 40%.’ I think they’re saying [it’ll take] five to seven years to construct, so that would be continuous traffic jams, and there’s concern that the vibrations will actually impact on archaeological deposits, causing the ground to crack.”Parker Pearson had previously suggested that Durrington Walls lay within a “domain of the living” separated from a “domain of the ancestors” centred on Stonehenge. Richard Bates, of the University of St. Andrews School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the findings -- made with remote sensing and sampling — provided "an insight to the past that shows an even more complex society than we could ever imagine.”The new find is at Durrington Walls, the site of a Neolithic village about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Stonehenge,Experts from a group of British universities led by the University of Bradford say the site consists of at least 20 huge shafts, more than 10 meters (32 feet) in diameter and 5 meters (16 feet) deep, forming a circle more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter.“When these pits were first noted it was thought they might be natural features — solution hollows in the chalk,” he said. STONEHENGE is under grave threat from 'destructive' upgrade work to the nearby A303 - despite government plans to spend £35million on an archeological team to preserve and record the site. "Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com foreign editor, based at the CBS News London bureau.The researchers found signs in at least one of the pits suggesting it had been "recut" after the initial excavation, "suggesting that some of these features could have been maintained through to the Middle Bronze Age." Deze geeft… We have introduced limits on visitor numbers to help keep everyone safe, and you won’t be able to visit without your booking confirmation. We just don’t know how many other big pits like that there are in the Stonehenge environs.”Through geophysical prospection, ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, the shafts showed up as geophysical anomalies. Archaeologists said Monday that they have discovered a major prehistoric monument under the earth near Stonehenge that could shed new light on the origins of the mystical stone ... 2020… The new [discovery] is probably the first of many new insights and discoveries. "Archaeologists have discovered a massive series of Neolithic-era pits very close to the Stonehenge site in southern England. You will need to book your timed tickets in advance. They had previously been dismissed as natural sinkholes and dew ponds. "As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape," archaeologist Dr. Nick Snashall of the National Trust organization, which runs the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, told BBC News.