Woodhenge is a late Neolithic monument near Durrington in Wiltshire, about two miles north-east of Stonehenge. Built around 2500 BC, it consisted of six concentric ovals of timber posts inside a bank and ditch. The original wooden uprights have disappeared, but concrete markers set out their positions so visitors can read the plan on the ground. The name can suggest a wooden copy of Stonehenge; the archaeology tells a more distinctive story, one connected to the communities and ceremonial landscape around Durrington Walls.
The monument’s oval arrangement measures roughly 40 metres by 36 metres. The enclosing bank and ditch create a larger henge about 90 metres across, with an entrance to the north-east. English Heritage notes that the entrance faced Durrington Walls, a major enclosure only around 70 metres away. Nearby timber structures and a settlement belonged to the same broad prehistoric landscape. These measurements help explain the setting, but they do not by themselves settle what people did inside the rings.
