Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge

Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle

The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.

The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, but the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle were more interested in an underworld.

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