Sandwiched between a 'fine trout' and the North Wraxall bus, perhaps the first press reference to the name of Stonehenge's timber neighbour #OTD 100 years ago: "where—as an aerial photograph has revealed—once stood a many-circled 'temple' of wood…to which the name 'Woodhenge' seems likely to cling"
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Cutting from The Wiltshire News, 8 October 1926 (via British Newspaper Archive): "Admiral Sir Richard Poore, of Winsley, is the owner of the land at Tollerdown, near Amesbury,
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where—as an aerial photograph has revealed—once stood a many-circled 'temple' of wood, the only one of its kind known to archaeologists. A number of curious 'dots' on the aerial photograph attracted attention, and investigation showed that each dot represented a circular pit dug into the solid chalk. The pits are arranged in seven concentrie rings, and there is reason to believe that they originally held wooden posts or tree trunks. Over 75 pits were discovered in the half of the circle that has been excavated (which is 200 feet in diameter). It is suggested that this circle, to which the name 'Woodhenge' seems likely to cling, may be the site of a construction made on somewhat similar lines to Stonehenge, which is about a mile and a half distant, but with tree trunks used instead of stone."
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Aerial photograph of "the so-called 'Woodhenge'", reproduced in the Illustrated London News, 19 March 1927
